Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area

Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area
Author: Anja Behnke
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2023
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004684778

The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic constructions. The data-driven approaches focus on areal differences and similarities in using non-finite verb forms in complex sentences in languages situated in Central and Western Siberia.

FInnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen Band 46

FInnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen Band 46
Author: Cornelius Hasselblatt
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3967692779

Originalia - Viviana Ballaera: Klasse(n) Geschmack! Kulinarischer Geschmack als Ausdruck sozialer Differenzierung in Helsinki - Anja Behnke: 'Clause chaining' im Ob-Jenissej Gebiet - Maria Brykina, Josefina Budzisch: If only Selkup had an optative ... (A corpus study of the lV-form in Selkup dialects) - Svetlana Edygarova: The Udmurt language between 1920 and 1950 - Ekaterina Georgieva: Syntactic correlates of (non-)finiteness in Udmurt - Beáta Wagner-Nagy, Susann Fischer: Word order in Selkup Diskussion und Kritik - Benjamin Schweitzer: Irmeli Hautamäki, Laura Piippo, Helena Sederholm (Hrsgg.): Avantgarde Suomessa. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura 2021 (Tietolipas 267)

Agreement Beyond the Verb

Agreement Beyond the Verb
Author: Chumakina
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019289756X

This book explores unusual patterns of agreement, one of the most intriguing and theoretically challenging aspects of human language. Agreement is typically thought to reflect a structural relationship between a verb and its arguments within the clause, and all major theories of agreement have been developed with the centrality of this relationship in mind. But beyond the verb, items belonging to practically every other part of speech have been found to function as agreement targets, including adpositions, adverbs, converbs, nouns, pronouns, complementizers, and other conjunctions. Data on these targets provide rich insights into the structural domains in which agreement operates, demonstrating that unusual targets can be associated with unexpected domains that are independent of the agreement domain of the verb. Following an introduction to the typology of unusual targets and unexpected domains across the world's languages, the chapters in this volume provide detailed treatments of a wide range of rare and complex agreement phenomena in seven languages, belonging to five different language families of Eurasia and the Pacific. The contributions are all based on novel data collected by the authors, which detail the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of agreement on non-verbal targets within the clause.

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia
Author: Edward Vajda
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2024-03-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111378381

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on family-internal subdivision and dialectal differentiation. Individual chapters trace the origins and expansion of the region’s widespread pastoral-based language groups as well as the microfamilies and isolates spoken by northern Asia’s surviving hunter-gatherers. Separate chapters cover sparsely recorded languages of early Inner Eurasia that defy precise classification and the various pidgins and creoles spread over the region. Other chapters investigate the typology of salient linguistic features of the area, including vowel harmony, noun inflection, verb indexing (also known as agreement), complex morphologies, and the syntax of complex predicates. Issues relating to genealogical ancestry, areal contact and language endangerment receive equal attention. With historical connections both to Eurasia’s pastoral-based empires as well as to ancient population movements into the Americas, the steppes, taiga forests, tundra and coastal fringes of northern Asia offer a complex and fascinating object of linguistic investigation.

Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Author: Volker Gast
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110280698

The volume is a collection of thirteen papers given at the “Third Syntax of the World’s Languages” conference, complemented with four additional papers as well as an introduction by the editors. All contributions deal with clause combining, focusing on one or both of the following two dimensions of analysis: properties of the clauses involved, types of dependency. The studies are data-driven and have a cross-linguistic or typological orientation. In addition to survey papers the volume contains in-depth studies of particular languages, mostly based on original data collected in recent field work.

Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area

Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9789004684768

The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic constructions. The data-driven approaches focus on areal differences and similarities in using non-finite verb forms in complex sentences in languages situated in Central and Western Siberia.

A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak)

A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak)
Author: Stefan Georg
Publisher: Global Oriental
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2007-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004213503

Linguists and specialists on Siberia are generally familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language, widely regarded as a linguistic enigma in many respects. Ket is a severely endangered language with today less than 500 native speakers. Together with Yugh, Kott, Arin, Assan and Pumpokol, all of which are completely extinct, it forms the Yeniseic family of languages, which has no known linguistic relatives. This Grammar of Ket constitutes the first book of its kind in English and is structured as follows: (1) Introduction; (2) The Kets and their Language; (3) Phonology; (4) Morphology; (5) References. A second volume is planned on Ket syntax, supported by a collection of original texts with translations and annotations.

A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak)

A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak)
Author: Stefan Georg
Publisher: Languages of Asia
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2007
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781901903584

Linguists and specialists are familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language. Ket is a severely endangered language with today less than 500 native speakers. Together with Yugh, Kott, Arin, Assan and Pumpokol, it forms the Yeniseic family of languages, which has no known linguistic relatives.