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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 06-12-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2004
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 23-11-2010
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 06-08-2022
Abstract: Middle voice constructions are generally understood as syntactically detransitivizing and as semantically characterized by a “low degree of event elaboration” (in Kemmer’s terms) involving a relatively affected subject. Middle voice constructions thus characterized have been identified in several Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) languages, in particular by LaPolla. In Macro-Tani languages, we find a seemingly cognate construction with a similar distribution however, Macro-Tani middle-like constructions are not detransitivizing, and do not mark subject affectedness. Instead, their primary meaning appears to be one of highlighting subject autonomy : a heightened degree of autonomy, volition and/or responsibility over an action on the part of the clause subject. In this article, following an analysis of Macro-Tani subject autonomy marking, we will argue that its similarities to and differences from middle voice marking in other Trans-Himalayan languages is consistent with Zúñiga and Kittilä’s view of middle voice as a “network of meanings,” whose properties derive not from their reflection of a unified underlying cognitive category, but rather from a heterogeneous set of developments from similar diachronic source forms.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1075/TSL.96.09POS
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 2013
Publisher: DE GRUYTER
Date: 12-12-2014
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 31-03-2016
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 31-03-2008
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 22-10-2009
Abstract: “Words” may be independently defined and identified in Galo (Tibeto-Burman Western Tani) in terms of relatively consistent and functionally well-motivated sets of phonological and grammatical criteria. However, these criteria very often fail to converge upon identification of the same formal unit instead, we frequently find phonological “words” which consist of two grammatical “words”, and grammatical “words” which consist of two phonological “words”, etc. The resulting “mismatch” between “phonological words” and “grammatical words” in Galo is argued to be theoretically non-trivial, in that its existence is capable of explaining a variety of otherwise seemingly disparate facts in the synchronic and diachronic organization of Galo grammar. The facts from Galo thus support a view of language in which “word” is independently defined in phonological and grammatical terms, and in which neither type of “word” necessarily corresponds to (or is projected by) the other. Although there might be said to exist a very generalized functional pressure towards “unification” of “phonological words” and “grammatical words”, such a pressure would not be expressible as a formal constraint on language grammar.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2011
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 03-2013
Abstract: North East Indian Linguistics Volume 5 presents the latest research on the languages of North East India. This present volume both builds on earlier contributions made by established NEILS participants and introduces new work by scholars making their first mark in regional scholarship. br br Providing a rich database in the form of two appendices, Alexander Kondakovs paper represents a solid sociolinguistic background against which future grammatical investigation of Koch dialects can be conducted. Mark W. Posts paper continues Kondakovs focus on the social and cultural dimensions of dialectology, in an attempt to resolve the vexing question of Galos genetic position in the Tani languages. Gwendolyn Hyslop presents the most comprehensive statement yet of the internal structure of this little-studied subgroup spanning Arunachal Pradesh and neighbouring Bhutan. Continuing investigation into nominalization and relational marking in North East Indian languages, Stephen Morey demonstrates that Latin-style grammatical case labels are often inappropriate for the languages of North East India. The volume closes with an analysis of Wihu song poetry by Stephen Morey and Meenaxi Bhattacharjya the latest of several ground-breaking contributions to ethno-musico-linguistic studies in North East India emerging from the Volkswagenstiftung-funded project led by Stephen Morey.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2008
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 31-03-2015
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 02-01-2011
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 2012
Abstract: North East India is one of the most linguistically erse regions of the world, with over 100, and perhaps as many as 200, different languages spoken. This book aims to produce a volume reflective of both the linguistic ersity of the region as well as the high quality of current research on North East Indian Linguistics. The articles in this volume cover four of the language families represented in North East India: Tai-Kadai, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, and Austroasiatic. Divided into seven sections, the book presents the description and analysis of a wide variety of phonological, syntactic, morphological, socio-linguistic and historical topics in the study of several languages of the region origin of the Boro-Garo language family, Boro-Garo grammar, serial verbs in a hitherto undescribed variety of Boro, information about Dimasa dialects, phonology of Hajong, a language of Assam and Meghalaya, and analysis of copula constructions in Assam Sadri. The volume also contains an analysis of pronouns in Madhav Kandalis Ramayana, a version of the Ramayana written in colloquial Assamese of the fourteenth century. The final section in this volume discusses serial verb constructions in the Austroasiatic language war, the most detailed discussion of war syntax and semantics to date.Contributions in this volume range from renowned scholars of Tibeto-Burman linguistics to students from the North East making their first impact in the field of Linguistics. The book will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, social scientists and general readers with an interest in the study, preservation and appreciation of North East Indian cultural and linguistic ersity.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 05-02-2007
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
Date: 12-2020
DOI: 10.5070/H91151002
Publisher: DE GRUYTER
Date: 31-12-2015
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 23-11-2009
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
Date: 23-02-2021
DOI: 10.5070/H919252151
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2011
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 03-08-2020
Abstract: Topographical deixis refers to a variety of spatial-environmental deixis, in which typically distal reference to entities is made in terms of a set of topographically-anchored referential planes: most often, upward, downward , or on the same level . This article reviews the genealogical and geographic distribution of topographical deixis in Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) languages, reviews the conditions in which topographical deixis in Trans-Himalayan languages may be gained or lost, and concludes that (a) topographical deixis is overwhelmingly found in languages spoken in montane environments, and (b) topographical deixis most likely reconstructs to a deep level within Trans-Himalayan. The language spoken at that level – whose precise phylogenetic status cannot yet be specified – was overwhelmingly likely to have been spoken in a montane environment.
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-04-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-05-2012
DOI: 10.1002/IUB.1044
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 02-01-2011
Abstract: North East Indian Linguistics Volume 3 presents the latest in descriptive and anthropological linguistic research on the languages of the North East Indian region. Long acknowledged to be among the culturally and linguistically richest and most erse regions of all Asia, North East India also remains to this day one of the least well-studied and well-understood. The collection of papers in this volume directly address this problem by presenting description and analysis of a wide variety of phonological, syntactic, morphological, sociolinguistic and historical topics in the study of several languages of the region.This volume reflects the current state of research in North East Indian Linguistics on the parts of local, national and international scholars alike and will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, and other social scientists and general readers with an interest in the study, preservation and appreciation of North East Indian cultural and linguistic ersity.
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 31-03-2008
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 23-11-2010
Abstract: North East Indian Linguistics Volume 2 is the second in a series of selected papers presented at the International Conferences of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS), a forum for the study of the languages of North East India. The North East Indian languages are the richest and most erse, yet also one of the least-well-known regions of the linguistics world.The book essentially discusses tonology and phonology in the Assam floodplain. They bring together extensive information on tone in Bodo and Dimasa, studies of Tai Phake songs, the Ahom Bar Amra manuscripts, and the Barpetia dialect of Assamese. A special section on numerals also presents a comparative study of Tibeto-Burman numeral systems and more detailed accounts of Khasi, Karbi, Kom and Aimol.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 31-12-2022
Abstract: Classifiers in Tani languages are similar in scale and semantic contents to the systems of better-known classifier languages such as Thai and Mandarin. Yet they are unusual in co-existing with an ancient and well-grammaticalised referential management system including both definite and indefinite articles, in lacking a generic classifier, in tending not to use a classifier with human referents, and in occurring exclusively to the right of head nouns, in the order [N CLF NUM]. They are also relatively more lexeme-like, occurring less frequently and with more semantic control than do the classifiers of many other East/Southeast Asian languages. This article will present a basic description of Tani classifier systems, and argue for their relatively recent development through the mechanism of a repeater construction functioning within a pre-existing [A-B B-C] template for taxonomic compound formation. Although this development is similar to pathways attested for other Asian languages, Tani classifiers do not share the same set of functional and distributional outcomes.
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 31-03-2008
Abstract: The North East of India is one of the most rich and erse cultural-linguistic regions of Asia. However, awareness of this is not widespread and as a result, the linguistic abundance of the region has not been sufficiently appreciated. Students and scholars from different parts of India and the world are now making efforts to turn around this scenario. North East Indian Linguistics is a result of such concerted attempts. This book is the first published collection of selected articles on North East Indian linguistics. The articles represent the current state of research in the field. The authors have adopted a variety of approaches to the study of the multifarious North East Indian languages Ao (Naga), Assamese, Atong (Bodo-Garo), Bishnupriya, Garo, Khamti (Tai), Khasi, Kurtoep, Singpho, and the Tani languages, Apatani, Galo and Mising. The areas addressed in this book include descriptive phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax and semantics.
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 2012
Publisher: DE GRUYTER
Date: 31-12-2015
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2012
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 08-05-2017
Publisher: Foundation Books
Date: 02-01-2011
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
Date: 02-09-2013
DOI: 10.5070/H912123715
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-08-2021
Start Date: 11-2023
End Date: 11-2026
Amount: $379,876.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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