Nominal and Verbal Plurality in Chadic

Nominal and Verbal Plurality in Chadic
Author: Paul Newman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-11-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110874210

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Verbal Plurality and Distributivity

Verbal Plurality and Distributivity
Author: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110293501

This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.

Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages

Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages
Author: Evangelia Adamou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2018-08-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027263817

The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory, and which belong to the Afroasiatic, Amerindian, Australian, Caucasian, and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions, several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages, ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies, this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.

Number

Number
Author: Greville G. Corbett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2000-12-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521649704

Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and many linguists take as the norm - namely the distinction between singular and plural (as in cat versus cats) - is only one of a wide range of possibilities to be found in languages around the world. Some languages, for instance, make more distinctions than English, having three, four or even five different values. Adopting a wide-ranging perspective, Greville Corbett draws on examples from many languages to analyse the possible systems of number. He reveals that the means for signalling number are remarkably varied and are put to a surprising range of special additional uses. By surveying some of the riches of the world s linguistic resources this book makes a major contribution to the typology of categories and demonstrates that languages are much more varied than is generally recognised.

Morphologies of Asia and Africa

Morphologies of Asia and Africa
Author: Alan S. Kaye
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Total Pages: 1379
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1575061090

In 1997, Eisenbrauns published the highly-regarded two-volume Phonologies of Asia and Africa, edited by Alan Kaye with the assistance of Peter T. Daniels, and the book rapidly became the standard reference for the phonologies of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Now the concept has been extended, and Kaye has assembled nearly 50 scholars to write essays on the morphologies of the same language group. The coverage is complete, copious, and again will likely become the standard work in the field. Contributors are an international Who's Who of Afro-Asiatic linguistics, from Appleyard to Leslau to Voigt. It is with great sadness that we report the death of Alan Kaye on May 31, 2007, while these volumes were in the final stages of preparation for the press. Alan was diagnosed with bone cancer on May 1 while on research leave in the United Arab Emirates and was brought home to Fullerton by his son on May 22.

Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies

Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies
Author: Werner Vycichl
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004132450

This collection of papers comprises almost all major areas of interest of Werner Vycichl: Egyptology and Coptology, Semitic linguistics, Beja (Northern Cushitic), Chadic, and general Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics.

Cross-Categorial Classification

Cross-Categorial Classification
Author: Serge Sagna
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110632764

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.

Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America

Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America
Author: Gale Goodwin Gómez
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2014-04-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004272410

The morphological process of reduplication occurs in languages throughout the world. Reduplication in indigenous languages of South America is the first volume to focus on reduplication in South America. The indigenous languages of South America remain under-documented and little accessible to theoretical linguistics. Most regions and language families of the continent are represented in articles based on recent fieldwork by the authors. Included are data concerning a diverse set of reduplication phenomena from the Andes, Amazonia, and other regions of the continent. A wide range of language families and isolates are discussed, such as Tupian, Quechuan, Mapuche, Tacanan, Arawakan, Barbacoan, and Macro-Jê. Several languages present unusual properties, some of which violate presumed universals, such as no partial without full reduplication.

Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic

Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic
Author: Benjamin J. Noonan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0310596017

Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic by Benjamin J. Noonan examines issues of interest in the current world of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic scholarship and their impact on understanding the Old Testament; it provides an accessible introduction for students, pastors, professors, and commentators to understand these important issues.