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A Sketch Grammar of Pondi [PDF]

, 2020
This book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branch of the Keram family.
Russell Barlow
exaly   +6 more sources

A Grammar Sketch of Uruangnirin

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
This paper presents a grammatical sketch of Uruangnirin, an Austronesian language of Indonesia. It provides an overview of word classes, personal pronouns, nouns and noun phrases, verbs and verbal inflection, clausal syntax, valency-changing strategies ...
Visser, Eline
doaj   +3 more sources

The Universal Grammar of Evolution [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2022
The evolution (sensu lato) of the cosmos can be divided in three phases: cosmological evolution (sensu stricto), biological evolution and cultural evolution. Analogies between biological and cultural evolution date from the nineteenth century although it
Koen B. Tanghe, Sylvain Billiard
doaj   +1 more source

Esquisse de grammaire du dan de l'Est (dialecte de Gouèta)

Mandenkan, 2021
The grammar sketch includes information on the phonology and morphosyntax of the Eastern Dan. In the phonological section, consonantal and vocalic systems are analyzed, together with the tones and the featural feet.
Valentin Vydrin
doaj   +1 more source

Notes on Gwama grammar

Studies in African Linguistics, 2012
Based on original field work, the paper provides a preliminary characterization of the grammar of Gwama, a little-researched Nilo-Saharan language of western Ethiopia belonging to the Koman language cluster.
Dirk Kievit, Erika Robertson
doaj   +3 more sources

Devising a Sketch Grammar for Academic Portuguese

Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2016
This paper presents the development of a new sketch grammar designed specifically for CoPEP, a newly compiled 40-million corpus comprising texts from academic journals, tagged with Freeling v3, the default tagger available in the Sketch Engine for ...
Tanara Zingano Kuhn, Iztok Kosem
doaj   +1 more source

Recycling a Mixed Language: Posha in Turkey

Languages, 2023
We provide a sketch grammar of a new bilingual mixed language based on data gathered through interaction with its last native speakers. The language, which we call Posha of Çankırı, is spoken in central Turkey.
Melike Uzum, Nurettin Demir, Metin Bagriacik   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Derivational processes in Rangi

Studies in African Linguistics, 2002
The main object of research described in this paper is Rangi, a scarcely investigated Bantu language of Northern Central Tanzania. Rangi phonology and morphonology are briefly sketched, including a classification with regard to both Vowel Height Harmony ...
Oliver Stegen
doaj   +3 more sources

Culioli, Adamczewski et la linguistique anglaise

Anglophonia, 2021
In his research on the analysis of languages, Culioli (1968, 1971) states that it is essential to build a system of representation with formal properties in order to be able to perform a calculus in linguistics.
Ariel Laurencio Tacoronte
doaj   +1 more source

Aspects of Maay phonology and morphology

Studies in African Linguistics, 2006
This paper presents a descriptive overview of the phonology and morphology of the Lower Jubba dialect of Maay, a language of southern Somalia. The paper highlights several points of typological, dialectological, and theoretical interest in this language.
Mary Paster
doaj   +3 more sources