The Verb in Nyakyusa
Title | The Verb in Nyakyusa PDF eBook |
Author | Bastian Persohn |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Total Pages | 405 |
Release | |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3961102945 |
Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.
The Verb in Nyakyusa
Title | The Verb in Nyakyusa PDF eBook |
Author | Bastian Persohn |
Publisher | Saint Philip Street Press |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 2020-10-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781013289736 |
Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
The verb in Nyakyusa
Title | The verb in Nyakyusa PDF eBook |
Author | Bastian Persohn |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Total Pages | 403 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3961100144 |
Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.
The Verb in Nyakyusa
Title | The Verb in Nyakyusa PDF eBook |
Author | Bastian Persohn |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2017-09-28 |
Genre | Ngonde language |
ISBN | 9783961100156 |
Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.
Associated Motion
Title | Associated Motion PDF eBook |
Author | Antoine Guillaume |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 702 |
Release | 2021-03-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110692120 |
This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.
A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement
Title | A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement PDF eBook |
Author | Jenneke van der Wal |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2022-03-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 019884428X |
This book explores variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis of data from 75 Bantu languages. It specifically addresses the question of which features are involved in agreement and nominal licensing, and examines how parametric variation in those features accounts for the settings and patterns that are attested crosslinguistically.
Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages
Title | Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Lívia Körtvélyessy |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 1351 |
Release | 2024-04-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3111053377 |
This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.