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A Grammar of Tundra Nenets

Author: Irina Nikolaeva

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2014-06-18

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 9783110320657

The book is the first substantial description of Tundra Nenets, a Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia and the north of European Russia. It provides a lasting piece of documentation of this highly endangered language. For a language as little researched as Nenets, any aspect of grammar may prove to be of potential significance for the field of linguistics and turn out to be theoretically challenging.

A Grammar of Tundra Nenets

Author: Irina Nikolaeva

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-08-19

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 3110373297

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The book is the first substantial description of Tundra Nenets, a highly endangered Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia and the north of European Russia, destined for the international linguistic community. Its purpose is to provide a thorough documentation of all of the major grammatical phenomena in the language. The grammar particularly emphasizes the description of syntax, because this has traditionally been a very neglected area of Nenets studies. Many syntactic aspects have not received a systematic treatment in the existing literature or have not been addressed at all. Since the existing works are not easily available, incomplete, or idiosyncratically presented, Tundra Nenets syntax has played little or no role in the considerations of modern linguists, whether more descriptively or theoretically inclined. The book is largely descriptive: it is not intended to address theoretical questions per se and the description is not meant to be formulated within a particular framework. However, it identifies and discusses issues which are of broad typological and theoretical interest. The description is richly exemplified. Most of the cited examples are the result of fieldwork conducted by the in various locations. They are sentences produced by native speakers either spontaneously or elicited in response to questions posed in Russian. Other examples are excerpts from original texts.

A Grammar of Nganasan

Author: Beáta Wagner-Nagy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 9004382763

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In her descriptive grammar of Nganasan Beáta Wagner-Nagy presents a comprehensive description of modern Nganasan, considering a number of typological aspects. Presented in a traditional structure the grammar serves as future reference of Nganasan within the field of Uralic studies.

Materials on Forest Enets, an Indigenous Language of Northern Siberia

Author: Florian Siegl

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 9789525667455

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A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak)

Author: Stefan Georg

Publisher: Global Oriental

Published: 2007-03-22

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9004213503

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Linguists and specialists are familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language. Ket is a severely endangered language with today less than 500 native speakers. Together with Yugh, Kott, Arin, Assan and Pumpokol, it forms the Yeniseic family of languages, which has no known linguistic relatives.

Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America

Author: Edward Vajda

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 9004436820

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This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eskaleut and Na-Dene, that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia.

Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia

Author: Yoshiko Matsumoto

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 9027266131

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This volume presents a cross-linguistic investigation of clausal noun-modifying constructions in genetically varied languages of Eurasia. Contrary to a common premise that, in any language, adnominal clauses that share some features of relative clauses constitute a structurally distinct construction, some languages of Eurasia exhibit a General Noun-Modifying Clause Construction (GNMCC) -- a single construction covering a wide range of semantic relations between the head noun and the clause. Through in-depth examination of naturally-occurring and elicited data from Ainu, languages of the Caucasus (e.g. Ingush, Georgian, Bezhta, Hinuq), Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Nenets, Sino-Tibetan languages (e.g. Cantonese, Mandarin, Rawang), and Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish, Sakha), the chapters discuss whether or not the language in question exhibits a GNMCC and the range of noun modification covered by such a construction. The findings afford us new facts, new theoretical perspectives and the first step toward a more global assessment of the possibilities for GNMCCs.

Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State

Author: Casper de Groot

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 9027265291

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This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English ‘as (a child)’. It focuses on the distribution of the essive in contemporary Uralic languages with special attention to the opposition between permanent and impermanent state. The volume presents large sets of new data and insights into the use of the essive in nineteen Uralic languages on the basis of a typological linguistic questionnaire. The typological variation is discussed within the linguistic domains of non-verbal main predication, secondary predication, complementation, and manner, temporal, and circumstantial adverbial phrases. The descriptions and analyses are presented in such a way that they are accessible to linguists in general, descriptive and theoretical linguists, and specialists in Uralic and/or linguistic typology. The data and approach offer many starting points for further investigations within but also outside the Uralic language family.

Spanish-English Contrasts

Author: Melvin Stanley Whitley

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780878403813

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An invaluable text in language and linguistics because it has a unique scope: a one-volume description of the Spanish language and its differences from English, and ranges from pronunciation and grammar to word meaning, language use, and social and dialectical variation. Designed for survey courses in Spanish linguistics with technical concepts explained in context for beginners in the field, Spanish/English Contrasts brings out the ways in which insights into the two languages have evolved as scholars have built on the work and research of others in the field. A bilingual glossary of linguistic terms is provided to facilitate discussion in either language. This second edition is thoroughly updated to incorporate insights and issues that have come to the fore from the explosion of research in the past twenty-five years in all of the areas covered by the book. It includes an expanded bibliography and index, and adds new exercises for student application and class discussion. Its approach remains broadly based however, in order to accommodate a range of areas and data rather than focusing narrowly on one single theory or research area, and it continues to emphasize implications for language teaching, translation, and other practical applications.

Negation in Uralic Languages

Author: Matti Miestamo

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 667

ISBN-13: 9027268649

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The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.