Author: M. V. PortmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes
Author: M. V. PortmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes (Classic Reprint)
Author: M. V. PortmanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282269487
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Excerpt from Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes The Andamanese languages are very co pious, the people having names for many animate and inanimate -objects, and words to express the parts of those objects, their actions, and conditions, in great detail. A complete Dictionary of any one Andamanese language would contain many thousand words, and would involve years of special labour; my present intention, therefore, is rather to give a general idea of the languages, and mental attitude of the people of the South Andaman Group of tribes; and, with a Comparative Vocabulary and its Analysis, to show how the words and lan guages are constructed, and how the different languages compare with each other. As the Andamanese race, in the Great Andaman, is now almost extinct, more than this cannot be done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes
Author: M. V. PortmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337825140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes
Author: M V PortmanPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781298912084
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
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Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes
Author: Maurice Vidal PortmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andaman languages
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A Grammar of Akabea
Author: Raoul ZamponiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198855796
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology and its phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman's Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie's Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language, such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consisting solely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics.
Indian Antiquary
Author: A Grammar of Akajeru
Author: Raoul Zamponi Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 180008093X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A Grammar of Akajeru describes aspects of the grammatical system and lexicon of Akajeru, a traditional dialect of the North Andamanese language, as it was reportedly used around the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based primarily on the fragments of this variety provided by the British anthropologist Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown and scattered among the published results of his anthropological research carried out on the islands between 1906 and 1908. These are supplemented by published lists of 46 anatomical terms and 28 toponyms collected by Edward Horace Man, Officer in Charge of the Andamanese 1875–79. The book provides a linguistic analysis of all the extant Akajeru material, plus items identified by Radcliffe-Brown as ‘North Andaman’ without further specification, his few records of Akabo and Akakhora and Man’s few records of Akakhora, which together constitute all the documentation of these other traditional North Andamanese dialects. It includes a grammatical sketch of Akajeru, a list of all the words that were recorded, together with an English-Akajeru finder list, and a comparison between Akajeru and Present-day Andamanese, an Akajeru-based variety with elements from all the other traditional dialects of North Andamanese that is today remembered by only three people.
The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Includes articles on issues of worldwide anthropological interest.
The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Tom GüldemannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107003687
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 747
Book Description
Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.