[PDF] A Grammatical Sketch Of Siberian Yupik Eskimo As Spoken On St Lawrence Island eBook

Author : Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Yuit language
ISBN : 9781555000776

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A grammer of the Yupik or Yuit language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and in Siberia, designed for teaching both speakers and non-speakers.

Author : Linda Womkon Badten
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 1987
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781555000295

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Dictionary for language spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and at the southeastern tip of the Chukchi Peninsula in the USSR. Includes English to Yupik index.

Author : Willem Joseph de Reuse
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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The study provides a description of the verbal derivational suffixation, postinflectional derivation, enclitics, and particles of the Central Siberian Yupik Eskimo language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and on the coast of Chukotka, in the Soviet Union. It also shows how these elements participate in a network of four tightly-knit grammatical susbsystems (verbal derivational suffixation; discourse enclitics; inflectional verbs moods; and adverbial and conjunctional particles borrowed from Chukchi, a neighboring Paleo-Siberian language), presents implications of the relationships among these subsystems for the theory of autolexical syntax and the theory of language change (particularly concerning contact-induced morphological and syntactic change in a polysynthetic language), and documents the history and sociolinguistics of grammatical and lexical influence of Chukchi on the Eskimo and Bering Sea area. (MSE)

Author : David Lockwood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2005-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 082647876X

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This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe syntactic phenomena in different languages. The book covers every aspect of syntax from the basics to more specialised topics, such as clitics which have grammatical importance but cannot be used in isolation, and negation, in which a construction contradicts the meaning of a sentence. The approach taken combines concepts from different theoretical schools, which view syntax differently. These include M. A. K. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics, the stratificational school advocated by Sydney Lamb, and Kenneth L. Pike's tagmemic model. The emphasis of the book is on syntactic structures rather than linguistic meaning, and the book stresses the difference between a well-formed sentence and a meaningful one. The final chapter brings these two aspects together, to show the connections between syntax and semology. Each chapter concludes with exercises from a diverse range of languages and a list of major technical terms. The book also includes a glossary as an essential resource for students approaching this difficult subject for the first time.

Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107392802

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This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.