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Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781606189108 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 0
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Chindali is spoken along the northern border of Malawi and in southwestern Tanzania. There are about 70,000 speakers in Malawi and 150,000 speakers in Tanzania. This grammatical sketch represents the language as spoken in the region of northern Malawi. It differs in important ways from the variety spoken in Tanzania, esp. in verbal morphology. It also differs from a closely related dialect called Chisukwa, primarily in tone and some sounds. Contents: Intro.; Phonology; Noun Morphology; Noun Modification; Verbs: Structure and Morphology; Verb Types; Verbs: Constructions and Phrases; Ideophones; Syntax; Invariable Forms. Append.: Verb Templates; Paradigm of the Verb "uku.lima" 'cultivate; hoe'. References.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781606189108 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 0
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Chindali is spoken along the northern border of Malawi and in southwestern Tanzania. There are about 70,000 speakers in Malawi and 150,000 speakers in Tanzania. This grammatical sketch represents the language as spoken in the region of northern Malawi. It differs in important ways from the variety spoken in Tanzania, esp. in verbal morphology. It also differs from a closely related dialect called Chisukwa, primarily in tone and some sounds. Contents: Intro.; Phonology; Noun Morphology; Noun Modification; Verbs: Structure and Morphology; Verb Types; Verbs: Constructions and Phrases; Ideophones; Syntax; Invariable Forms. Append.: Verb Templates; Paradigm of the Verb "uku.lima" 'cultivate; hoe'. References.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781606189092 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 0
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Chindali is a Bantu language of eastern Africa, spoken in the southwest Mbeya region of Tanzania and in the northern Chitipa District of Malawi. There are about 70,000 speakers in Malawi and 150,000 in Tanzania. In Malawi, not only are there varieties known as Chindali, but also the closely related variety known as Chisukwa. This dict. focuses on the Chindali varieties spoken in northern Malawi, excl. Chisukwa. Contents: Guide to the Dict.: Linguistic Studies of Chindali; Chindali-English Dict.; English-Chindali Index; Index to Proto-Bantu Roots; Append.: Chindali Kinship Terms; Paradigms of Chindali Pronouns; Paradigms of Chindali Demonstratives; Numbers and Time; Verbs of Perception; Verbes of Location and Position; Verbs of Motion.
Author: Dorothea Lehmann Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 62
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This is the third in a series of publications on Zambian languages and grammar. The intention of the series is to boast the meagre scholarship and availability of educational materials on Zambian languages, which became particularly in urgent in 1996, following the decision of the Zambian government to revert to the policy of using local languages as media of instruction. This volume provides a grammatical sketch of the language commonly known as Nyanja, the mother tongue of some 0.75 million Zambians, and the second largest language group in the country. Nyanja is used by a large population as a second language, is the lingua franca of the armed forces, and is used in official publications and radio broadcasts. It is also spoken in parts of Mozambique and Malawi. The survey is divided into sections on sound systems, morphology and sentence structure.
Author: Joan L. Bybee Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027221685 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 485
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In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on local languages of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Others are based on statistical analyses of extensive written and spoken corpora of texts.
Author: Matti Miestamo Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110197634 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 505
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This book is the first cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on an extensive and systematic language sample. Methodological issues, especially sampling, are discussed at length. Standard negation – the basic structural means languages have for negating declarative verbal main clauses – is typologized from a new perspective, paying attention to structural differences between affirmatives and negatives. In symmetric negation affirmative and negative structures show no differences except for the presence of the negative marker(s), whereas in asymmetric negation there are further structural differences, i.e. asymmetries. A distinction is made between constructional and paradigmatic asymmetry; in the former the addition of the negative marker(s) is accompanied by further structural differences in comparison to the corresponding affirmative, and in the latter the correspondences between the members of (verbal etc.) paradigms used in affirmatives and negatives are not one-to-one. Cross-cutting the constructional-paradigmatic distinction, asymmetric negation can be further divided into subtypes according to the nature of the asymmetry. Standard negation structures found in the 297 sample languages are exemplified and discussed in detail. The frequencies of the different types and some typological correlations are also examined. Functional motivations are proposed for the structural types – symmetric negatives are language-internally analogous to the linguistic structure of the affirmative and asymmetric negatives are language-externally analogous to different asymmetries between affirmation and negation on the functional level. Relevant diachronic issues are also discussed. The book is of interest to language typologists, descriptive linguists and to all linguists interested in negation.
Author: Werner Abraham Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027230536 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 396
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This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for his life work. It is in mainly this spirit (and the EUROTYPE spirit) that the following scholars have contributed to the volume: T.Tsunoda on Warrungu (Australian indigeneous language), L. Kulikov on Vedic, K. Kiryu on Japanese, Korean and Newari, N. Sumbatova on Svan (from the Kartvelian group), T.Bulygina & A. Shmelev on Russian, W. Boeder on Georgian, R. Thieroff on aorist and imperfect in European languages, Y. Poupynin on Russian, L. Johanson on Kipchak Turkic, I. Dolinina on Russian, N. Kozintseva on Old and Modern Eastern Armenian, Ch. Lee on Korean, W. Abraham on split ergative languages and German, G. Silnitsky on Russian, V. Plungian on Russian, E. Rakhilina on Russian, and K. Ebert on Kalmyk.
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