Xhosa Syntax
Author | : Jan Adriaan Du Plessis |
Publisher | : Via Africa |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jan Adriaan Du Plessis |
Publisher | : Via Africa |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jan Adriaan Du Plessis |
Publisher | : Via Africa |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alastair James Weakley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Xhosa language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Denier Hvitfeldt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Xhosa language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J.C. Oosthuysen |
Publisher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2016-09-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1928357075 |
Written by a life-long language practioner who has spoken isiXhosa since childhood, this grammar represents a significant advance in understanding the structure of isiXhosa, the language of more than 8 million South Africans. In this ground-breaking book isiXhosa is described in its own right, freeing it from preconceived grammatical ideas derived from European languages. All the features of the language are portrayed in this revisionist grammar that reinvents isiXhosa as a language with its own genius. All students of isiXhosa urgently need this book. Both mother-tongue speakers and those studying isiXhosa as a second or third language have to take cognisance of this new approach to escape the restrictions imposed by a Eurocentric bias. It is essential to authors of textbooks and those who prescribe syllabi. It is also of significance for those attempting to gain insight in the structure of related African languages.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 1320 |
Release | : 2010-04-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0080877753 |
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world's languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. - Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and dispute - Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose - Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage - Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia
Author | : Jan Adriaan Du Plessis |
Publisher | : Via Africa |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Xhosa language |
ISBN | : 9780799413236 |
Author | : Keith Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2020-10-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000158748 |
The second edition of this invaluable introductory text takes account of developments in syntactic studies. Dealing with the whole range of syntax, this book explains, in a lucid and approachable way, why linguists have adopted certain solutions to problems and not others. This book introduces the basic concepts used in the description of syntax, independently of any single model of grammar. Profusely illustrated with diagrams, there are sets of exercises for every chapter which can be used in class or by students working independently.
Author | : Sam Mchombo |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2004-10-14 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521573788 |
This comprehensive book provides a detailed description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa. Assuming no prior knowledge of current theory, it covers topics such as relative clause and question formation, interactions between tone and syntactic structure, aspects of clause structure such as complementation, and phonetics and phonology. It also provides a detailed account of argument structure, in which the role of verbal suffixation is examined. Sam Mchombo's description is supplemented by observations about how the study of African languages, specifically Bantu languages, has contributed to progress in grammatical theory, including the debates that have raged within linguistic theory about the relationship between syntax and the lexicon, and the contributions of African linguistic structure to the evaluation of competing grammatical theories. Clearly organised and accessible, The Syntax of Chichewa will be an invaluable resource for students interested in linguistic theory and how it can be applied to a specific language.
Author | : Tibor Kiss |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 2015-03-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110363682 |
This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.