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Studies in diversity linguistics volume 28
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
Constructions with multiple verbal elements have posed a long-standing challenge to linguistic analysis. Most studies of verb serialisation have been confined to single languages rather than looking at crosslinguistic patterns. This book provides the first in-depth account into the areal characteristics of multi-verb constructions (MVCs) in Eastern Indonesia. By collating published data as well as corpus data from 32 Austronesian and Papuan languages,...
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Series
Valency argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic volume Volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (278 p.)
Description
After more than three decades of research on secondary predication, there has not been a book which examines the syntactic and semantic mechanisms of secondary predication in East Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian and Korean - until now. Shibagaki's lucid and impartial survey should prove of great value to people interested in the study of not only secondary predication, but also the theories of syntax and semantics.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 online resource (IX, 334 pages).
Description
This volume presents a new conceptual framework that recognizes that in East Asia the literary and vernacular registers historically interacted and influenced each other as part of a unified, if hybrid, language system that was mastered by Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese according to their own unique linguistic resources.
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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (502 p.)
Description
Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammaris of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics,...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) : map.
Description
Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as...
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Studies in diversity linguistics volume 22
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 446 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Description
Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo...
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Constructional approaches to language volume 27
Constructional approaches to language volume Volume 27
Constructional approaches to language volume Volume 27
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vi, 355 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Description
"This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for example node creation or loss, node-external reconfiguration of the network or in/decrease in productivity and schematicity. The authors discuss the theoretical...
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Topics in English linguistics volume 57
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
vi, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Brill's studies in language cognition and culture volume Volume 13
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.





