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Direct linkHyslop, Gwendolyn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Kurtop is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 15,000 people in Northeastern Bhutan. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-driven language documentation in Bhutan. When possible, analyses are presented in typological and historical/comparative perspectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Sino Tibetan Languages, Phonology
PDF pending restorationClifton, John M. – 1995
Kaki Ae is a non-Austronesian language spoken by about 300 people on the south coast of Papua New Guinea, at best distantly related to any other language in that area. A brief grammar sketch of the language is presented, including discussion of the phonology, sentences, phrases, words, and morpheme categories. Kaki Ae phonemics include 11…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Classification
Download full textSikogukira, Matutin – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1994
This paper discusses the sense relation of synonymy, taking the view that this phenomenon should be understood as a gradual concept, a cline along which there are different degrees of synonymy. This view is consistent with the widely held opinion among semanticists that strict or absolute synonymy is rare in human language. A further step is taken…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Definitions
Lyovin, Anatole V. – 1997
The textbook is designed to introduce beginning students of linguistics to the variety of languages of the world. It assumes the reader has mastered the basic principles of linguistics, but seeks background information in the broad range of language phenomena found in the world's languages. Chapters address these topics: classification of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
Stark, Thomas C. Smith; Garcia, Fermin Tapia – 1986
An analysis of Amuzgo, a language within the Otomanguean family of Mexico, suggests that it is an active-static language with patterns similar but not parallel to those of Chocho. In the report, data on the characteristics of Chocho are summarized, theory and research on active-static languages is reviewed, and the data on Amuzgo are presented.…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
Sandefur, John R. – 1986
A study of North Australia's Kriol language situation identifies the language, its speakers, its functions, and the sociopolitical factors in its emergence as an autonomous language. The first chapter reviews the development of the linguistic field concerning pidgins and creoles, looking especially at the concepts developed to explain the rise and…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Bilingualism, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics
