Author: Alphonse Ephraim S.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243816255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Guaymi Grammar and Dictionary
Author: Alphonse Ephraim S.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243816255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Guaymi Grammar and Dictionary with Some Ethnological Notes
Author: Ephraim S. AlphonsePublisher:
ISBN: 9780781241625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
Guaymí Grammar and Dictionary
Author: Ephraim S. Alphonse ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guaymi Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Guaymi Grammar and Dictionary
Author: Ephraim S. AlphonsePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266399193
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Excerpt from Guaymi Grammar and Dictionary: With Some Ethnological Notes Guaymi, at the time of the conquest, was spoken in Panama from the Chagres River to southern Costa Rica and extended across the Isthmus from coast to coast. There is some evidence that it was also the language of the aboriginal inhabitants of the islands in the Gulf of Panama. 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.
Guaymí Grammar and Dictionary
Author: Ephraim S. AlphonsePublisher:
ISBN: 9781404741621
Category : Guaymi Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Grammar of Space
Author: Soteria SvorouPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027276579
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and expression of spatial relations centers around the emergence and evolution of spatial grams, and the semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of two types of spatial grams. The author bases her observations on the study of data from 26 genetically unrelated and randomly selected languages. It is shown that languages are similar in the way spatial grams emerge and evolve, and also in the way specific types of spatial grams are used to express not only spatial but also temporal and other non-spatial relations. Motivation for these similarities may lie in the way we, as human beings, experience the world, which is constrained by our physical configuration and neurophysiological apparatus, as well as our individual cultures.
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Author: Cecil H. BrownPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195121619
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors, soap, and Saturday) in the vocabularies of 292 Amerindian languages and dialects spoken from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The first book ever to undertake such a large and systematic cross-language investigation, Brown's work provides fresh insights into general processes of lexical change and development, including those involving language universals and diffusion.
Participles
Author: Ksenia ShagalPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110633388
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.
List of Publications of the American Bureau of Ethnology
Author: United States. American Bureau of EthnologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Approaches to Grammaticalization
Author: Elizabeth Closs TraugottPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277613
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.