Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes
Author | : Maurice Vidal Portman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Andaman languages |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Maurice Vidal Portman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Andaman languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M. V. Portman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Raoul Zamponi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198855796 |
This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology and its phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman's Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie's Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language, such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consisting solely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics.
Author | : M. V. Portman |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2017-07-16 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780282269487 |
Excerpt from Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes The Andamanese languages are very co pious, the people having names for many animate and inanimate -objects, and words to express the parts of those objects, their actions, and conditions, in great detail. A complete Dictionary of any one Andamanese language would contain many thousand words, and would involve years of special labour; my present intention, therefore, is rather to give a general idea of the languages, and mental attitude of the people of the South Andaman Group of tribes; and, with a Comparative Vocabulary and its Analysis, to show how the words and lan guages are constructed, and how the different languages compare with each other. As the Andamanese race, in the Great Andaman, is now almost extinct, more than this cannot be done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Anvita Abbi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004246126 |
A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is a pioneering piece of work by Anvita Abbi which introduces readers to a unique world of cognition of the people who are remnants of the first migration from Africa 70,000 years before present.
Author | : Raoul Zamponi |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 180008093X |
A Grammar of Akajeru describes aspects of the grammatical system and lexicon of Akajeru, a traditional dialect of the North Andamanese language, as it was reportedly used around the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based primarily on the fragments of this variety provided by the British anthropologist Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown and scattered among the published results of his anthropological research carried out on the islands between 1906 and 1908. These are supplemented by published lists of 46 anatomical terms and 28 toponyms collected by Edward Horace Man, Officer in Charge of the Andamanese 1875–79. The book provides a linguistic analysis of all the extant Akajeru material, plus items identified by Radcliffe-Brown as ‘North Andaman’ without further specification, his few records of Akabo and Akakhora and Man’s few records of Akakhora, which together constitute all the documentation of these other traditional North Andamanese dialects. It includes a grammatical sketch of Akajeru, a list of all the words that were recorded, together with an English-Akajeru finder list, and a comparison between Akajeru and Present-day Andamanese, an Akajeru-based variety with elements from all the other traditional dialects of North Andamanese that is today remembered by only three people.
Author | : Joseph Greenberg |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2005-03-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191514527 |
This book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. William Croft sets the work in context and considers its impact and the bitter controversy it excited.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Includes articles on issues of worldwide anthropological interest.