Multi-verb constructions in Èdó
| Author | : Ota Ogie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788247118511 |
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Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology
| Author | : Claire Lefebvre |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027206767 |
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Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a definable typological class (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class."
New Directions in Grammaticalization Research
| Author | : Andrew D.M. Smith |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2015-04-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027269041 |
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The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact. The contributions consider data from a broad range of spoken and signed languages, including Greek, Japanese, Nigerian Pidgin, Swedish, and Turkish Sign Language. The authors work in a variety of theoretical frameworks, and draw on a number of research traditions. The volume will be of primary interest to historical linguists, though the diversity of approaches and sources of data mean that the volume is also likely have considerable general appeal.
Theory and description in African Linguistics
| Author | : Emily Clem |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 788 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3961102058 |
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The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.
Serial Verbs
| Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2018-10-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0192508776 |
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This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the construction have the same tense, aspect, mood, modality, and evidentiality values, cannot be negated or questioned separately, and usually share the same subject and object. They are a powerful means of portraying various facets of one event, and can express grammatical meanings such as aspect, direction, and causation, particularly in languages where few other means are available. In this volume, Alexandra Aikhenvald seeks to answer unresolved questions such as: What are the parameters of variation in serial verbs? How do serial verbs differ from other, superficially similar multi-verb constructions? How do serial verbs emerge, and what happens to them over time? What role do they play in the representation of event structure? The book uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations. It will be of interest to researchers and students from a wide range of fields of linguistics, especially typology, anthropological linguistics, and language contact.
The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics
| Author | : Augustine Agwuele |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 647 |
| Release | : 2018-03-09 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1315392968 |
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The Handbook of African Linguistics provides a holistic coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics that will serve researchers working across the wide continuum in the field. Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.
Serial Verbs
| Author | : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
| Publisher | : Oxford Studies in Typology and |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198791267 |
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This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate. It uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations.
Cyclical Change Continued
| Author | : Elly van Gelderen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2016-03-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902726743X |
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This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles take, the interactions between different cycles, the typical stages and their stability, and the areal factors influencing cycles. The languages and language families that are considered in depth are Central Pomo, Cherokee, Chinese, English, French, Gbe, German, Hmong-Mien, Maipurean, Mayan, Mohawk, Mon-Khmer, Niger-Congo, Nupod, Quechuan, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai , Tuscarora, Ute, and Yoruboid. One paper covers several of the world’s language families. Cyclical change connects linguists working in various frameworks because it is exciting to find a reason behind this fascinating phenomenon.
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity
| Author | : John H. McWhorter |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2011-06-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1934078409 |
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In John McWhorter’s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of their recent birth as pidgins. These two claims have been highly controversial among creolists as well as other linguists. In this volume, Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity, McWhorter gathers articles he has written since then, in the wake of responses from a wide range of creolists and linguists. These articles represent a considerable divergence in direction from his earlier work.
The Creole Debate
| Author | : John H. McWhorter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2018-05-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108601936 |
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Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the most widely accepted idea that creoles are created in the same way as 'children', taking characteristics from both 'parent' languages, and its underlying assumption that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.
