Category: Linguistics

By Jacqueline Lecarme (Ed.), Jean Lowenstamm (Ed.), Ur Shlonsky (Ed.)

This quantity provides a range of papers from the third convention on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages mentioned comprise (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and outdated Egyptian.

By Vondrak V.

By Lothar Hoffmann, Hartwig Kalverkamper, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Christian Galinski, Werner Hullen

This instruction manual is a entire illustration of the ambitions, effects and purposes of specified language and terminology examine together with its background and current developments.

By Eugene Ehrlich

Adjectives have lengthy suffered from undesirable press. for a few years, English lecturers were keen on telling scholars that "adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of every little thing else."

While it's nonetheless really useful to heed your English teacher's recommendation on such a lot different issues, The hugely Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the terribly Literate proves that breaking definite ideas could make written and spoken language that a lot livelier, including much-needed colour, sort, and adornment. With this addition to the preferred Highly Selective sequence, the "golden" adjective, eventually, will get the superstar remedy it merits. From adventitious to zaftig, well known lexicographer Eugene Ehrlich has amassed greater than 850 of the main fascinating and interesting adjectives within the English language and has supplied concise definitions and instructive utilization examples. no matter if you're a author, a speaker, or a be aware buff, this compendious, trenchant, laudable, and all-around fantabulous quantity can help you set panache again into your prose.

By Billy Go

Korean Made basic is a booklet for someone who needs to start studying the Korean language. regardless of your age, you could find out how to learn, write, converse and comprehend Korean.

Learn the Korean writing approach, Korean tradition, or even heritage. study over 1,000 vocabulary phrases and words via 20 in-depth and enjoyable classes, choked with lots of examples. also, perform sections with resolution keys are outfitted into each chapter.

This e-book additionally comprises extra complicated point notes for extra expert Korean audio system searching for a assessment of simple grammar and ideas, together with an entire appendix protecting sound switch rules.

Start your intriguing trip into the Korean language this present day. Let's examine Korean!

By Malcolm Schofield, Martha C. Nussbaum

The essays during this quantity have been written to have a good time the 60th birthday of G. E. L. Owen, who by means of his essays and seminars on historical Greek philosophy has made a contribution to its examine that's moment to none. The authors, from each side of the Atlantic, contain not just students whose major examine pursuits lie in Greek philosophy, yet others top identified for his or her paintings mostly philosophy. All are students or more youthful colleagues of Professor Owen who're indebted to his perform of philosophical scholarship as a first-order philosophical task. on the center of G. E. L. Owen's paintings has been a preoccupation with the function of philosophical mirrored image on language within the metaphysics and epistemology of Plato, Aristotle and different historical Greek thinkers. this can be for that reason the overall subject of the current quantity, along with 5 papers on Plato's severe dialogues and 7 on Aristotle, prefaced by means of on Heraclitus and via a research of the talk in Hellenistic philosophy at the sorites. this can be a booklet for experts in Greek philosophy and philosophers of language in an effort to even be of curiosity to a couple linguists.

By Joan C. Beal, Karen P. Corrigan, Hermann L. Moisl

A variety of digital corpora has develop into more and more obtainable through the WWW and CD-ROM. This improvement coincided with advancements within the criteria governing the amassing, encoding and archiving of such facts. much less awareness, even though, has been paid to creating different varieties of electronic info on hand. this can be very true of that which one may well describe as 'unconventional', specifically, dialects, baby language and bilingual databases. This booklet is a primary step towards constructing comparable criteria for enriching and protecting those missed assets.

By White L.

A Grammar ebook of Finnish is a realistic simple grammar for international inexperienced persons of Finnish. It provides sincerely the significant good points of the Finnish grammar, containing the grammar wanted for conversing, figuring out and examining usual general Finnish.

The booklet stands as an exceptional aid for newcomers in addition to for more matured inexperienced persons. the several note types and sentence constructions are observed by means of charts, tables and many examples to enable you to comprehend and memorize issues.

By Various

JSEALS is the peer-reviewed magazine of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, and is
devoted to publishing study at the languages of mainland and insular Southeast Asia

Contents

Sino-Vietnamese Grammatical Vocabulary And Sociolinguistic stipulations For
Borrowing -- 1

Agreement In Laizo 11

Influence Of Lexical Semantics On Reflexes And Allomorphs Of * And *
In Bonggi 23

Northern And Southern Vietnamese Tone Coarticulation: A Comparative Case Study
49

Contact Pragmatics: Requests In Wisconsin Hmong
63

English Loanword variation In Burmese
77

A Layer Of Dongsonian Vocabulary In Vietnamese
95

Modality In Burmese: ‘May’ Or ‘Must’ – Grammatical makes use of Of yá ‘Get’ 111

Singapore English Wh-Questions: a spot within the Paradigm 127

Structural And Pragmatic services Of Kuki-Chin Verbal Stem Alternations 141

The heart Voice In Tagalog 159

Reduplication Asymmetries In Bahasa Indonesia And The association Of The Lexicon-Syntax Interface
189

Proto-Mon-Khmer Vocalism: relocating On From Shorto’s ‘Alternances’ 205

Basic Serial Verb buildings In Thai 215

An Acoustic learn Of Interword Consonant Sequences In Vietnamese 231

The Integration Of English Loanwords In Hong Kong Cantonese 251

Nonexhaustive Syllabification In Temiar
Ngee Thai Yap 267

Data Paper
Preliminary Notes at the Phonology, Orthography And Vocabulary Of Semnam (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula)
283

Fifteen remarkable writers spoke back editor Wendy Lesser’s demand unique essays almost about language–the one they grew up with, and the English during which they write. regardless of American assumptions approximately well mannered chinese language discourse, Amy Tan believes that there has been not anything discreet in regards to the chinese with which she grew up. Leonard Michaels spoke in simple terms Yiddish till he was once 5, and nonetheless stumbled on its strains in his English language writing. Belgian-born Luc Sante enjoyed his French Tintin and his Sartre, yet simply in English may perhaps he locate “words of 1 syllable” that evoke American bars and bus stops. And even supposing Louis Begley writes novels in English and addresses relations in Polish, he nonetheless speaks French together with his wife–the language in their courtship. As intimate as one’s desires, as deepest as a mystery id, those essays study and display the writers’ delight, discomfort, and delight in studying a brand new tongue, revisiting an outdated one, and reconciling the thrill and frustrations of every.