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Collected Language Notes on Dagaare Grammar
Author | : Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Dagaare language |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1466 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author | : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1688 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Count and Mass Across Languages
Author | : Diane Massam |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2012-09-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199654271 |
This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied grammatical realizations across languages. In English, count nouns are those that can be counted and pluralized (two cats), whereas mass nouns cannot be, at least not without a change in meaning (#two rices). The chapters in this volume explore the question of the cognitive and linguistic universality and variability of the concepts count and mass from philosophical, semantic, and morpho-syntactic points of view, touching also on issues in acquisition and processing. The volume also significantly contributes to our cross-linguistic knowledge, as it includes chapters with a focus on Blackfoot, Cantonese, Dagaare, English, Halkomelem, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Mandarin, Ojibwe, and Persian, as well as discussion of several other languages including Armenian, Hungarian, and Korean. The overall consensus of this volume is that while the general concepts of count and mass are available to all humans, forms of grammaticalization involving number, classifiers, and determiners play a key role in their linguistic treatment, and indeed in whether these concepts are grammatically expressed at all. This variation may be reflect the fact that count/mass is just one possible realization of a deeper and broader concept, itself related to the categories of nominal and verbal aspect.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1676 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Dagaare
Author | : Mark Ali |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3961103232 |
This book presents an extensive dictionary of the Dagaare language (Niger-Congo; Gur (Mabia)), focussing on the dialect of Central Dagaare, spoken in the Upper West region of Ghana. The dictionary provides comprehensive definitions, example sentences and the English translations, phonetic forms, inflected forms, etymological notes as well as information dialectal variation. This work is intended as a resource for linguists, but also as a resource for Dagaare speakers. Also included is a grammatical sketch of Dagaare contributed by Prof. Adams Bodomo.
Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa
Author | : Ian Maddieson |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780865436329 |
For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.
Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana
Author | : Sean Hawkins |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802048721 |
Drawing on the work of a variety of other fields and disciplines - from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology - the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing.
Ethnicity in Ghana
Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1349623377 |
Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed much to indigenous ways of seeing. The contributors explore the role of European administrators and recruitment officers as well as African cultural brokers in shaping new identities. The interaction of gender and ethnic consciousness is explicitly addressed. The volume also examines the formulation of the national question in Ghana today - in debates over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.