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ISBN: 9780198767664 0191821519 0191080284 9780191080289 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press
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This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. While there is a long history of research into these languages, much of it has been conducted within several disparate national traditions; studies of certain languages and topics are somewhat limited and in many cases outdated. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal relations and diversity of the Uralic language family, including the outlines of its historical development, and the contacts between Uralic and other languages of Eurasia.The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents the origins and development of the Uralic languages: the initial chapters examine reconstructed Proto-Uralic and its divergence, while later chapters provide surveys of the history and codification of the three Uralic nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and the Uralic minority languages from Baltic Europe to Siberia. This part also explores questions of endangerment, revitalization, and language policy. The chapters inPart II offer individual structural overviews of the Uralic languages, including a number of understudied minority languages for which no detailed description in English has previously been available. The final part of the book provides cross-Uralic comparative and typological case studies of a range of issues in phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. The chapters explore a number of topics, such as information structure and clause combining, that have traditionally received very little attention in Uralic studies. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
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ISBN: 9783110789836 9783110789898 3110789833 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin Boston
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Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and cultural diversity, and the ways in which cultural changes and new means of communication affect narrative genres and structures. It focusses on linguistic and cultural facets of the narratives in the areas of linguistic diversity across the tropics and surrounding areas — New Guinea, Northern Australia, Siberia, and also the Tibeto-Burman region. The introduction brings together the recurrent themes in the grammar and the substance of the narratives. The twelve contributions to the volume address grammatical forms and categories deployed in organizing the narrative and interweaving the protagonists and the narrator. These include "ations, person of the narrator and the protagonist, mirativity, demonstratives, and clause chaining. The contributors also address the kinds of narratives told, their organization and evolution in time and space, under the impact of post-colonial experience and new means of communication via social media. The volume highlights the importance of documenting narrative tradition across indigenous languages.
Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology --- Languages. --- Clause Chaining. --- Mirativity. --- Narratives. --- Quotations.
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ISBN: 9783110789836 9783110789898 9783110789775 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin ;; Boston De Gruyter Mouton
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ISBN: 9783111378381 9783111378466 9783111378220 Year: 2024 Publisher: Berlin ;; Boston De Gruyter Mouton
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ISBN: 9783110338454 9783110373011 9783110338348 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin ;; Boston De Gruyter
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ISBN: 9783110811674 9783110141863 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin ;; Boston De Gruyter
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ISBN: 9783110819724 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Boston
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ISBN: 9783110819724 9783110134179 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin ;; Boston De Gruyter Mouton
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