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Aspects of Language Contact
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 489

Aspects of Language Contact

This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. Thomas Stolz defines the study of Romancisation processes as a very promising laboratory for language-contact oriented research and theoretical work based thereon. The reader is informed about the large scale projects on loanword typology in the contribution by Martin Haspelmath and on contact-induced grammatical change conducted by Jeanette Sakel and Yaron Matras. ...

A Grammar of Kulina
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

A Grammar of Kulina

This book is a reference grammar of Kulina, an Amazonian language spoken in Brazil and Peru. The dialect described by the author is spoken on the upper Purus River in the Brazilian state of Acre. Kulina belongs to the Arawan language family. It is predominantly head-marking and has a complex verbal morphology which is largely agglutinating with some instances of fusion. The language has two noun classes and two genders. The gender agreement of transitive verbs with their arguments is in part governed by intricate grammatical rules and in part pragmatically driven. There are three types of possession, alienable, inalienable, and kinship. The latter category only applies to some kinship nouns, while others are alienably possessed. Kulina has aspirated and unaspirated obstruents, but different aspirated obstruents do not co-occur in one morpheme due to Grassmann's law, a dissimilation process known from Sanskrit and Ancient Greek. The book contains two Kulina texts and a chapter on the lexicon, which discusses colour terms, generic nouns for plants and animals, pet vocatives, idioms, and the origin of loan words.

The polyfunctionality of 'still' expressions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 783

The polyfunctionality of 'still' expressions

Expressions from the semasiological domain of phasal polarity (ʻstillʼ, ʻalreadyʼ, etc.) tend to be highly polyfunctional, with their various uses often extending into a wide range of other linguistic domains, both time-related and non-temporal. Yet these patterns have hitherto been investigated mostly for individual languages or smaller groups. This volume presents the first ever larger-scale survey of the numerous functions of expressions whose meanings include the notion of ʻstill’, making use of a global sample of 76 varieties from 45 distinct phyla. It is aimed at semanticists, typologists and descriptive grammarians alike.

The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 557

The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion. In engaging, up-to-date articles, distinguished experts examine the role of features in current versions of generative grammar and in learnibility theory as it relates to native, non-native, and impaired acquisition.

Tiroler Landwirthschaftlicher Kalender
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 168

Tiroler Landwirthschaftlicher Kalender

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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Traun-Alz-Bote
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 362

Traun-Alz-Bote

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1871
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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“Der” heilige Stefan und die Stefaner
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 592

“Der” heilige Stefan und die Stefaner

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1873
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Indigenous Languages of the Americas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 625

The Indigenous Languages of the Americas

The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.

Anthropological Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Anthropological Linguistics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Münchner neueste Nachrichten
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 353

Münchner neueste Nachrichten

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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