A Grammar of Akabea

A Grammar of Akabea
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 457
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198855798
ISBN-13 : 0198855796
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Grammar of Akabea by : Raoul Zamponi

Download or read book A Grammar of Akabea written by Raoul Zamponi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology and its phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman's Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie's Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language, such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consisting solely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics.


A Grammar of Akabea Related Books

A Grammar of Akabea
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Raoul Zamponi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s
GRAMMAR OF AKABEA
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: COMRIE & ZAMPONI.
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Grammar of Akajeru
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Raoul Zamponi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-11 - Publisher: UCL Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Grammar of Akajeru describes aspects of the grammatical system and lexicon of Akajeru, a traditional dialect of the North Andamanese language, as it was repor
Morphological Perspectives
Language: en
Pages: 474
Authors: Matthew Baerman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-17 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigma
A Grammar of Urarina
Language: en
Pages: 968
Authors: Knut J. Olawsky
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Review text: "This is a comprehensive description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of a little known Amazonian language, and should be of interest to typ