Maidu Grammar
Author | : William Shipley |
Publisher | : Berkeley : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Maidu language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Shipley |
Publisher | : Berkeley : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Maidu language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karen Lahaie Anderson |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2014-03-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781496141408 |
Learn Mountain Maidu in 12 lessons. The Fish-head version is written in a unique orthography, which involves the special fish-head character. There is another version of this book in a more universal/standard orthography, which might be more appropriate for linguists. These two versions are exactly the same except for orthography. Each lesson has a set of vocabulary words, explanation of grammatical elements, exercises, and answers. The glossary at the end includes the vocabulary from the lessons. The lessons start with simple sentences in the "today" verb tense, and advance through asking questions, commands and exhortations, derivation, pronouns, past and future verb tenses, complex sentences, and expressing possibility. This is a book for everyday people wanting to revive the language, as well as linguists interested in language structure. The grammar is based on William Shipley's collection of Texts (1963) as well as the teachings of native speaker Farrell Yatam Cunningham.
Author | : Karen Lahaie Anderson |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2014-02-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781495360862 |
Learn Mountain Maidu in 12 lessons. Each lesson has a set of vocabulary words, explanation of grammatical elements, exercises, and answers. The glossary at the end includes the vocabulary from the lessons. The lessons start with simple sentences in the "today" verb tense, and advance through asking questions, commands and exhortations, derivation, pronouns, past and future verb tenses, complex sentences, and expressing possibility. This is a book for everyday people wanting to revive the language, as well as linguists interested in language structure. The grammar is based on William Shipley's collection of Texts (1963) as well as the teachings of native speaker Farrell Yatam Cunningham. The orthography used is based on Shipley's, with a few differences for readability.
Author | : Wick R. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Acoma dialect |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Shipley, William F |
Publisher | : Berkeley, University of California P |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : MAIDU LANGUAGE GRAMMAR |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carmen Jany |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520098757 |
The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920's, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.
Author | : Andrew Eatough |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1999-10-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780520098060 |
Central Hill Nisenan was spoken in the hills northeast of Sacramento, California, but like many other California languages, it is no longer spoken. This monograph includes texts recorded by the late Richard Smith, a brief description of the language (with chapters on phonology, morphology, and syntax), and a short word list.
Author | : Claude Hagège |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027235945 |
Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers and hearers, their interactions, and their relationship to the world around them. Further, these theories tend toward excessive concern with methodology and the properties of linguistic systems, neglecting, in fact, the languages themselves and those who use them in everyday life. Even the shift toward cognitive approaches, promising for their new insights into the brain, still misses an equally important aspect of language, namely a framework which would account for the social activity by which speakers build linguistic structures in order to meet the requirements of communication. Based on a wide range of languages, Hagège's work sheds light on the human language building activity. He argues that the conscious and unconscious 'signatures' of human nature are written everywhere in language. The study of these signatures gives insight into basic characteristics of human beings, tends to re-humanize linguistics, and stresses the importance of language as a dynamic activity as opposed to a self-contained system.
Author | : Joan Bybee |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1994-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226086658 |
Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
Author | : Carmen Dagostino |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 998 |
Release | : 2023-12-18 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3110712741 |
This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.