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Autor:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publikováno v:
Cadernos de Linguística, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2021)
Ways of talking about diseases, ailments, convalescence, and well-being vary from language to language. In some, an ailment 'hits' or 'gets' the person; in others, the sufferer 'catches' an ailment, comes to be a 'container' for it, or is presented a
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https://doaj.org/article/445b91bda6df45ca8fd80abd32e2c4f6
Autor:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publikováno v:
Linguistic Discovery, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2018)
Yalaku, a Ndu language from the Middle Sepik region of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, has no dedicated comparative construction — just like an overwhelming majority of Papuan languages of New Guinea (de Vries 2015). After a brief outl
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https://doaj.org/article/68115a2c97454c6a9f15305a44e920be
Autor:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Knowledge can be expressed in language using a plethora of grammatical means. Four major groups of meanings related to knowledge are Evidentiality: grammatical expression of information source; Egophoricity: grammatical expression of access to knowle
Autor:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publikováno v:
Names, Vol 44, Iss 4 (1996)
Abstract Tariana is the only Arawak language spoken in the linguistic area of the Vaupes River basin of Amazonia, along with a number of East Tucanoan languages. The Tariana people are thought to be the most recent arrivals in the region. The indigen
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https://doaj.org/article/45deb7111a094bfc842ab34d9bab7207
The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages.
Autor:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the worlds languages. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of their morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic charac
This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and co
Autor:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publikováno v:
Classifiers. 3:141-152
Classifiers are morphemes which occur under specifiable conditions and which categorise nominal referents in terms of their animacy, shape, and other properties. The most widely represented type is numeral classifiers, which occur next to a number wo
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https://doi.org/10.1075/alal.22022.aik
https://doi.org/10.1075/alal.22022.aik
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity
This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the nature and classification of adjectives and sets out the cross-linguistic pa