A Grammar of Lower Grand Valley Dani
Author | : H. Myron Bromley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : H. Myron Bromley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Myron Bromley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1270 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Dani language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Myron Bromley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Myron Bromley |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2014-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004286586 |
Author | : H. Myron Bromley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789401759175 |
Author | : H. Myron Bromley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9401759162 |
Author | : Peter Barclay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Indigenous peoples |
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Author | : Sebastian Fedden |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110264196 |
Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea. Mian has approximately 1,400 speakers and is highly endangered. This grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on primary field data consisting of a text corpus that covers different genres of the oral tradition, namely myths and ancestor stories, historical accounts, accounts of the initiation ritual, conversations, and procedural texts. The corpus was recorded by the author during a total of eleven months of field work from 2004 to 2008. The book provides a thorough description of all areas of Mian grammar and gives an in-depth analysis of many points of typological interest, such as the complex system of lexical tone, the interaction between a gender system and a system of classificatory prefixes on verbs of object movement, manipulation or handling, which allows the highlighting of certain characteristics of a referent in a given situation, the complex verbal morphology which allows fine-grained tense-aspect-mood distinctions, and a switch-reference system in which switch-reference suffixes on medial verbs are homophonous with and derived from suffixes functioning as tense and aspect markers in final verbs. The book is rounded off by a collection of traditional and contemporary texts (fully glossed and translated) and a word list comprising some 1,600 items, giving lexical tone, word class and meaning.
Author | : Karl G. Heider |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351483366 |
For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare, like rituals and kinship alliances, is part of a total culture, and for this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a holistic point of view. Other aspects of Dani life and organization are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare, such as the social, ecological, and technological elements in the Dani way of life. Professor Heider examines particularly the role of warfare itself in terms of the particular needs, and lack of them. The first section of this book documents the Dani and their warfare and provides one of the most detailed accounts of tribal life available. The second section focuses on the material aspects of Dani culture, to explore the interrelationships of the material objects with the other aspects of Dani culture; this analysis is especially interesting since the Dani moved from a stone-age culture to steel tools during the period of study itself. Professor Heider also notes the distinctive aspects of Dani culture; the paucity of color, number, and other attribute terms, the near absence of art; their five-year post-partum sexual abstinence, and other traits that seem to suggest that the Dani have little interest in intellectual elaboration or sex, and that despite their warfare, they are not a particularly aggressive people. Including previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life and warfare, this book provides anthropologists with a full and vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights into the general problems of human aggression.
Author | : Matthew K. Gordon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191646350 |
This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and patterns. It examines major phonological phenomena such as phoneme inventories, syllable structure, phonological alternations, stress, tone, intonation, and prosodic morphology, and investigates issues including how common certain types of sounds are cross-linguistically and why; how many languages differentiate questions and statements using intonation; which areas of the world tend to be associated with more complex tone distinctions; and the relationship between cross-linguistic and language-internal frequency. Data are drawn from existing typologies, from the results of a survey of various phonological patterns in the 100-language sample from the World Atlas of Language Structures, and from corpora of individual languages. Matthew Gordon analyses these data and explores the correlations between different - often superficially unrelated - phonological properties to gain insight into the driving forces behind these phenomena. He provides an overview of synchronic and diachronic explanations for the patterns observed and discusses how formal phonological theory has attempted to model the typological data. One of relatively few typological works devoted to phonology, this book will be a valuable resource for phonologists and phoneticians from advanced undergraduate level upwards, as well all those with an interest in language typology.