Buku yang ambisius dan berpandangan jauh ke depan ini memeriksa studi linguistik yang dihasilkan oleh misionaris yang berbasis di Pantai Barat Laut Pasifik Amerika Utara (dan khususnya Haida Gwaii) selama akhir abad kesembilan belas dan awal abad kedua puluh. Dengan menggunakan secara luas bahan arsip yang belum diterbitkan, penulis menunjukkan bahwa misionaris bertanggung jawab atas pengenalan…
Selama beberapa dekade, rekonstruksi sintaksis lebih atau kurang dianggap sebagai usaha yang sia-sia dan tidak berhasil, tidak terkecuali karena kritik berat pada tahun 1970-an dari para sarjana seperti Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, dll. Pandangan menyesatkan ini mencapai puncaknya dalam kesimpulan Lightfoot (2002: 625): "[j]ika seseorang berpikir bahwa mereka dapat merekonstruksi tata bahasa de…
This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings coll…
This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such a…
This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language, and is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the extremely multil…
This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length treatment of the Mauwake language and the only published grammar of the Kumil subgroup to date. Relying on other existing published and unpublished grammars, the author sh…
Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 h…
Dalam “Perluasan Preterit dan Kehancuran Sempurna dalam Bahasa Spanyol Porteno dan di Luar Itu”, Guro Nore Fløgstad menawarkan penjelasan orisinal tentang cara kategori Preterit telah berkembang, dengan mengorbankan Perfect, dalam bahasa Spanyol Porteño – varietas yang digunakan di Buenos Aires, Argentina. Melalui sumber primer dan sampel lintas bahasa yang besar, Fløgstad secara meyak…
This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future research in the linguistic area. It is also designed to provide an inventory of correspondence with English usage in a reversal index. The concepts u…
Apakah plurilingualisme merupakan pengecualian atau norma dalam penelitian Eurasia tradisional? Volume ini menyajikan pilihan sumber primer—dalam banyak kasus diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggris untuk pertama kalinya—dengan pengantar yang memberikan bahan historis yang menarik untuk menantang pengertian tentang cara para cendekiawan Eurasia tradisional menghadapi plurilingualisme dan mono…