A Student's Reference Grammar of Modern Formal Indonesian

A Student's Reference Grammar of Modern Formal Indonesian
Author: Roderick Ross Macdonald
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1967
Genre: Indonesian language
ISBN: 9780878403622

This book "This grammar is a description of formal Indonesian in that it is based on published texts rather than on colloquial material. Some of the texts were delivered as political speeches ; some are legal documents such as the Constitution and the Agrarian Laws ; some are textbooks intended for use in schools ; some are translations of books from other languages, generally through the medium of English ; and a few are novelettes and stories." - foreword. "Intended for the general student of the Indonesian language and the professional linguist, this short descriptive grammar is a useful guide as a well as a point of departure for more intensive study." - product description.

The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar

The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Author: K. Alexander Adelaar
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0700712860

An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.

The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia

The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2022-02-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1136897968

Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.

Studies in Relational Grammar 1

Studies in Relational Grammar 1
Author: David M. Perlmutter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0226660524

In this long-awaited book—the first in a three-volume work—David M. Perlmutter has co-authored and edited ten essays that introduce relational grammar, a novel conception of sentence structure that offers far-reaching conclusions for universal grammar. The basic ideas of relational grammar can be simply stated. First, grammatical relations such as 'subject of,' 'direct object of,' and 'indirect object of,' are needed to characterize the class of grammatical constructions in the clausal syntax of natural languages, to formulate universals of grammar, and to construct adequate and insightful grammars of individual languages. Second, the range of linguistic variation in word order and case patterns makes it impossible to define grammatical relations in terms of phrase structure configurations or case. Rather, grammatical relations must be taken as primitive notions of linguistic theory. The papers collected here take up the first of these ideas. They lay out the basic theoretical constructs of relational grammar and discuss three areas of grammar—advancement construction, raising, and clause union. In his introduction, Perlmutter discusses each of the papers—most of which are published here for the first time—and places them in the context of the whole of linguistic study.