Verbs of Motion in Changana
| Author | : Bento Sitoe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
| ISBN | : |
Verbs Of Motion In Changana
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Associated Motion
| Author | : Antoine Guillaume |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 702 |
| Release | : 2021-03-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110692120 |
This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.
Motion and Space across Languages
| Author | : Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2017-08-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027265364 |
This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.
The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Bantu
| Author | : Jenneke van der Wal |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2016-12-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110488426 |
This volume brings together descriptions and analyses of the conjoint/disjoint alternation, a typologically significant phenomenon found in many Bantu languages. The chapters provide in-depth documentation, comparative studies and theoretical analyses of the alternation from a range of Bantu languages, showing its crosslinguistic variation in constituent structure, morphology, prosody and information structure.
Languages of the Himalayas
| Author | : George van Driem |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 924 |
| Release | : 2022-09-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004514929 |
Rethinking Grammaticalization
| Author | : María José López-Couso |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027229880 |
This volume and its companion one "Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization" offer a selection of papers from the "Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization," held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in grammaticalization and suggest possible directions for future investigations in the field. Combining theoretical discussions with the analysis of particular test cases from a wide range of languages from various language families, the selected papers focus on such central questions as the need for a broader notion of grammaticalization, the distorting effects of grammaticalization on grammar, the areal perspective in grammaticalization and the relevance of contact-induced change to grammaticalization. Other topics discussed include the development of markers of textual connectivity and the emergence of cardinal numerals and numeral systems.
A History of African Linguistics
| Author | : H. Ekkehard Wolff |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2019-06-13 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1108417973 |
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
1000 Doctoral Theses by Mozambicans or about Mozambique
| Author | : Paulus Gerdes |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1304019152 |
The books presents in historical order information (author, year, title, university, country) about 535 doctoral theses written by Mozambicans and about 544 doctoral theses about Mozambique written by foreigners. Universities of 33 countries have awarded these doctoral degrees. Includes alphabetic and thematic indices, and various tables (2013, 236 pp.)
Voice
| Author | : Barbara A. Fox |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1994-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027229155 |
The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more exotic languages have raised still further questions. What discourse functions and diachronic events unite 'voice' as a recognizable phenomenon across languages? How are they typically grammaticalized? What stages do children go through in learning them? How does 'voice' link up with ergativity and with other categories and constructions such as the Inverse and the Antipassive? The authors in this volume have different perspectives on these problems: they discuss voice, e.g., from a typological-universal view, in relation to language acquisition and to ergativity, and from diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives.
