FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous

Sentential form and prosodic structure of Catalan

by Feldhausen, Ingo

fromLinguistik aktuell

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This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or senten…

Austronesian and theoretical linguistics

by Potsdam, Eric, Travis, Lisa deMena, Mercado, Raphael

fromLinguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA)

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The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to…

In the land of invented languages: Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lover…

by Okrent, Arika

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Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man's enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming eccentrics and exasperating megalomaniacs, the land of invented languages is a place where you can recite the Lord's Prayer in John Wilkins's Ph…

The phonology of Catalan

by Wheeler, Max

fromPhonology of the world's languages

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This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Approaching the subject a pragmatic version of orthodox Optimality Theory it describes the Spanish and French dialects of Catalan and the social and stylistic variations within them. This is likely to be…

Language: the cultural tool

by Everett, Daniel Leonard

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AA bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain--as most linguists do--but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, exist…

Morphotactics: Basque auxiliaries and the structure of spellout

by Arregi, Karlos, Nevins, Andrew

fromStudies in natural language and linguistic theory

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Annotation This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the syntactic and postsyntactic components of word formation, and the role of hierarchi…

A grammar of Madurese

by Davies, William D.

fromMouton grammar library

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Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14 million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese. There is no existing comprehensive descript…

Number--Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oce…

by Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan, Storch, Anne

fromStudies in language companion series

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Numeral systems of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages are the topic of this paper. Extended body-part systems that employ the fingers, parts of the arm and head are used by most languages in this family. Body-part based numeral systems of this type are only found in par…

The mental corpus. How language is represented in the mind

by Taylor, John R.

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This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the interaction of syntax with a lexicon, the second listing the words and the first the rules for…

Grammatical relations and their non-canonical encoding in Baltic

by Nau, Nicole, Holvoet, Axel

fromValency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in …

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This paper is a first report on an ongoing project aiming at building up a database of non-canonical argument marking in Lithuanian in contrast to other languages with relatively rich systems of morphological cases. The language with which we begin the comparison is Icelandic. T…

Introduction to Avestan

by Vaan, Michiel de, Martínez García, Javier

fromBrill Introductions to Indo-European Languages

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This Introduction to Avestan provides a concise grammar of the Avestan language, including information on the language history and short text samples with a glossary.

A grammar of Mavea: an oceanic language of Vanuatu

by Guérin, Valérie M. P. R.

fromOceanic linguistics special publication

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Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and mor…

Hittite etymological dictionary

by Puhvel, Jaan

fromTrends in linguistics

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The Hittite Etymological Dictionary is a comprehensive compendium of the vocabulary of Hittite, one of the great languages of the Ancient Near East, and of paramount importance for comparative Indo-European studies. Since the start of publication, as evidenced by frequency of re…