Colloquial Sinhalese Clause Structures
Author | : James W. Gair |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110873206 |
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Author | : James W. Gair |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110873206 |
Author | : Gordon H. Fairbanks |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Sinhalese language |
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Author | : Gordon H. Fairbanks |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Sinhalese language |
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Author | : Mahendra K. Verma |
Publisher | : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI) |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780937073605 |
These papers explore an important syntactic feature of South Asian languages, the experiencer subject construction. Contributing scholars investigate this feature in such languages as Marathi, Bhojpuri, Sinhalese, Marwari, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Kalasha, Gujarati, Bepali, Maithili, and Malayalam. The experiencer subject not only defines South Asian languages as a linguistic unit, but also has implications for theoretical linguistics. Mahendra Verma is a professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Tara Mohanan is a linguistics professor in the English department of the National University of Singapore.
Author | : R. Malatesha Joshi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3030059774 |
This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara orthography and how they may affect literacy development and problems along with the implications for assessment and instruction. Even though akshara orthography is used by more than a billion people, there is an urgent need for a systematic attempt to bring the features, research findings, and future directions of akshara together in a coherent volume. We hope that this volume will bridge that gap. Akshara is used in several Indic languages, each calling it by a slightly different name, for example 'aksharamu', in Telugu, 'akshara' in Kannada, and 'akshar' in Hindi. It is the Bhrami-derived orthography used across much of the Indian subcontinent. There is a growing body of research on the psycholinguistic underpinnings of learning to read akshara, and the emerging perspective is that akshara, even though classified as alphasyllabaries, abugida, and semi-syllabic writing systems, is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Rather, akshara orthography is unique and deserves to be a separate classification and needs further investigation relating to literacy acquisition in akshara. The chapters in this volume, written by leading authors in the field, will inform the reader of the current research on akshara in a coherent and systematic way.
Author | : Patrick Brandt |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2010-11-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027287813 |
What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert work from acquisition, processing, typological and theoretical syntax-semantics research, this volume provides a state of the art as well as cutting edge discussion of central issues in the realm of Transitivity. These include the definition and role of "Natural Transitivity", the interpretation and repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation.
Author | : James W. Gair |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Sinhalese language |
ISBN | : 0195095219 |
This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
Author | : Frederick B Agard |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 615 |
Release | : 2023-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004655395 |
Author | : Sebastian Nordhoff |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004234136 |
Sri Lanka Malay shows extreme language contact: Malay phonology and lexicon are squared with clearly Indian morphosyntax and semantics. Historical, anthropological, typological and structural approaches shed light on the complex genesis and rapid evolution of this language.
Author | : Martin Haspelmath |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2005-07-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199255911 |
The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description ofthe structural feature in question.The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to bewithout it.