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Book SynopsisThe student is introduced to the grammar, forms of expression, and idiosyncrasies of Rabbinic Hebrew. The book comprises 32 teaching units, each with a phraseology section, vocabulary, and exercise texts. Historical and morphological aspects are discussed as well as syntax and usage. There is an introductory survey of research into Rabbinic Hebrew and a detailed bibliography.Trade Review'...the most complete description of the language of the Mishnah and other tannaitic works in English since Segal's 1927 grammar…Pérez Fernández has rendered an important service to English-speaking students and scholars. He has made the modern study of Mishnaic Hebrew easily accessible to a wide audience.' Steven E. Fassberg, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1999.

Brill The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon

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Book SynopsisThe Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon by Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey is a comprehensive description of Kurux, a northern Dravidian tribal language with two million speakers. Isolated in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India, Kurux shows a unique mixture of archaic Dravidian traits and innovations induced by contact with neighboring Indo-Aryan and Munda languages, and has posed questions regarding language change and Dravidian subgrouping. Making use of first-hand materials from their fieldwork, Kobayashi and Tirkey analyze the complexities of the language in the grammar section. This book also contains transcribed and glossed texts, and a lexicon with more than 9,000 entries, and serves both as reference for linguists and learning resource for students.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction § 1 Typological Overview § 2 Profile of the Language § 3 Language Endangerment § 4 Writing Systems and Transcription § 5 Name of the Language § 6 Dialectal Variation § 7 Genetic Relationship § 8 Lexicon § 9 Convergence § 10 Previous Studies § 11 Fieldwork and Materials § 12 Organization of the Book § 13 Acknowledgment Grammar 2 Phonology § 14 Vowels § 15 Vowel Length § 16 Umlaut § 17 Consonants § 18 Geminates and Singletons § 19 Metathesis and Linearity § 20 Syllable § 21 Stress and Rhythm § 22 Intonation § 23 Morphophonology § 24 Sound Changes up to Proto-Kurux-Malto § 25 Phonological Alternations within Kurux § 26 Summary of Historical Phonology 3 Morphology § 27 Characteristics of Kurux Morphology § 28 Parts of Speech § 29 Nouns: Nominal Stems and Bases § 30 Nouns: Gender § 31 Nouns: Number § 32 Nouns: Cases § 33 Diminutive and Augmentative § 34 Compound Nouns and Adjectives § 35 Pronouns: Personal Pronouns § 36 Pronouns: Reflexives § 37 Pronouns: Possessives § 38 Pronouns: Demonstratives § 39 Pronouns: Interrogatives and Indefinites § 40 Pronouns: Cases of Personal and Reflexive Pronouns § 41 Pronouns: Cases of Demonstratives and Interrogatives § 42 Adpositions § 43 Agreement Suffix and Predicative Nominals § 44 Adjectives: Simple § 45 Adjectives in -taː, -iyaː, -madʰheː and -aːboː § 46 Adjectives: Suffixes Deriving Demonyms etc. § 47 Numerals and Classifiers § 48 Adverbs § 49 Preverbs § 50 Verbs § 51 Verbal Roots and Verbal Bases § 52 Past Stem and the Primary Verb Classes § 53 Irregular Verb Inflection § 54 Verb Inflection: Simple Tenses § 55 Complex Aspectual Forms: Perfect § 56 Complex Aspectual Forms: Progressive § 57 Complex Aspectual Forms: ciʔ-aː Benefactive § 58 Verb Inflection: Modal Forms § 59 Verb Inflection: Inter-Female Forms § 60 Copula and Existential Verbs § 61 Copular Clauses and Concord § 62 Derived Verbal Bases § 63 Frequentative Verbs § 64 Infinitives § 65 Inflection Reduction § 66 Perfect and Imperfect Participles § 67 Agentive Participle § 68 Adverbial Participles § 69 Converb § 70 Origin of the Kurux-Malto Past Inflection 4 Syntax and Pragmatics § 71 Word Order § 72 Coordinating Conjunctions § 73 Subordinating Conjunctions § 74 Complementizer § 75 Reflexives and Logophorics § 76 Relative Clauses § 77 The -madʰheː Construction and Adnominal PPs § 78 Conditional and Counterfactual § 79 Complex Predicates § 80 Voice and Argument Alternation § 81 Passive and Grammatical Relations § 82 Stative Passive Construction § 83 Use of the -aː Infinitive § 84 Use of the -naː Infinitive § 85 Non-nominative Subjects § 86 Impersonal Construction § 87 Topic and Focus § 88 Phrasal Clitics § 89 Clausal Clitics 5 Semantics § 90 Spatial Deixis § 91 Animacy, Number, Gender and Person § 92 Use of the Copular Verbs § 93 Possession § 94 Question § 95 Deictic Verbs § 96 Definiteness and Differential Object Marking § 97 Lexical Aspect § 98 Use of the Simple Tenses § 99 Use of the Aspectual Forms § 100 Modality § 101 Use of the Causative § 102 Function of the Passive Voice § 103 Volition or Control over the Action § 104 Negation § 105 Negative Polarity Items § 106 Politeness § 107 Use of Cases: Nominative § 108 Use of Cases: Accusative § 109 Use of Cases: Dative § 110 Use of Cases: Instrumental-Ablative § 111 Use of Cases: Genitive § 112 Use of Cases: Locative 6 Lexicon § 113 Characteristics of the Kurux Lexicon § 114 Inherited Etyma § 115 Loanwords and Toponyms § 116 Source of Loanwords § 117 Semantic Shift, Doublets and False Friends § 118 Kinship Terms § 119 Personal Names § 120 Echo Words and Onomatopoeia § 121 Interjections § 122 Euphemistic Expression § 123 Fauna and Flora Texts 7 Glossed Texts § 124 Home Visit (Dialogue) § 125 From Bablu Tirkey, Poor Ropna’s Dream (2017) § 126 Sone the Vulture § 127 Life Story of a Farmer § 128 The Bihar Famine (1966–1967) and my Father § 129 Letiya the Thief § 130 Building a Career § 131 King’s Seven Daughters and a Rakshas § 132 Story of Two Orphans and the Banyan Seed § 133 Seven Brothers and a Sister § 134 Story of a Man and a Tiger § 135 Myth of Fire and Rain § 136 Why Oraons Observe the Karam Festival Lexicon Bibliography Word Index General Index

Brill A Grammar of Makary Kotoko

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Book SynopsisIn A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description and analysis of Makary Kotoko - a Central Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon’s (2010a, 2010b, 2012) Basic Linguistic Theory. Working with an extensive corpus of recorded texts supplemented by interactions with native speakers of the language, the author provides the first full grammar of a Kotoko language. The detailed analysis of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse features of Makary Kotoko is from a functional/typological perspective. Being based on a large number of oral texts, the analysis provides an example-rich description showing the range of variation of the constructions presented while giving insights into Kotoko culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Phonology 3 Allomorphy 4 Word Classes and Grammatical Markers 5 Nominal Morphology 6 Noun Phrase 7 Numerals and Non-numeral Quantifiers 8 Asymmetric Coordination 9 Concrete and Abstract Thing 10 Adverbs and Ideophones 11 Prepositions and Locative Specifiers 12 Local Adverbial Demonstratives 13 Aspectual/Modal Coding 14 Verbal Morphology 15 Non-human/Locative Pronoun lə 16 Locative Particles 17 Verb Argument Structure 18 Reflexive and Reciprocal Markers 19 Arguments of the Verb Phrase 20 Comparison 21 Non-verbal Predication 22 Negation 23 Interrogatives 24 Imperatives and Commands 25 Resumptive Pronouns 26 Information Structure Topic, Switch Topic, Focus, Contrastive Focus 27 Relative Clauses 28 Complement Clauses 29 Combining Clauses Appendix A: Interlinearized Texts Appendix B: Makary Kotoko—English Lexicon Appendix C: Pronominal Forms References Index