AIKHENVALD, ALEXANDRA Y./ROBERT M. W. DIXON [EDS].

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance. Problems in Comparative Linguistics.

Oxford-New York, Oxford University Press. 2001. Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, blue dustjacket, thick 8vo: xvi, 454pp. introduction, 15 contributions with foot- & chapternotes and references - conclusions &c. list contributors, abbreviations, index authors, index languages & language families, index subjects, table of contents. CONTRIBUTORS: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald - R.M.W. Dixonh - Peter Bellwood - Calvert Watkins - Alan Dench - Malcolm Ross - Geoffrey Haig - Randy J. LaPolla - N.J. Enfield - James A. Matisoff - Hilary Chappell - Gerrit J. Dimmendaal - Bernd Heine - Tania Kuteva - Timothy Jowan Curnow. Very fine copy - as new. Volume Oxford Linguistics. 9780198299813

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Classifiers. A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

Oxford University Press, 2003. Paperback. Pp: 535. Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition. ISBN: 9780199264667. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.

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A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. orig.boards. 24x15cm, xxiv,705 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages" - publisher's description.

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Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology Explorations in Linguistic Typology

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. Softcover. pp. xx, 355. 8vo. Black and white maps, charts, tables, illustrations et al. Appears unread, as new. "Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity and borrowing. Some aspects of grammar are spread more readily than others. The question is - which are they? When languages are in contact with each other, what changes do we expect to occur in their grammatical structures? Only an inductively based cross-linguistic examination can provide an answer. This is what this volume is about. The book starts with a typological introduction outlining principles of contact-induced change and factors which facilitate diffusion of linguistic traits. It is followed by twelve studies of contact-induced changes in languages from Amazonia, East and West Africa, Australia, East Timor, and the Sinitic domain. Set alongside these are studies of Pennsylvania German spoken by Mennonites in Canada in contact with English, Basque in contact with Romance languages in Spain and France, and language contact in the Balkans. All the studies are based on intensive fieldwork, and each cast in terms of the typological parameters set out in the introduction. The book includes a glossary to facilitate its use by graduates and advanced undergraduates in linguistics and in disciplines such as anthropology. As New .

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The Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea.

With the assistance of Jacklyn Yuamali Ala and Pauline Agnes Yuaneng Luma Laki. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xxv,702 pp. 26 cm. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. ISBN 9780199539819.

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