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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University, North Queensland. She is an expert on languages and cultures of Amazonia and the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, in addition to linguistic typology, general linguistics and several other areas.

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The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

OUP Oxford

2018-01-18

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This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for...

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , Hannah S. Sarvasy The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2025-02-25 PDF 170,09 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A Guide to Gender and Classifiers Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive systems of numeral classifiers in Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages. Almost all languages... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2025-02-12 PDF 100,84 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Integration of Language and Society Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon , Nerida Jarkey The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers' relationships with each other, their beliefs, and their ways of viewing the... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2021-11-30 PDF 102,05 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Phonological Word and Grammatical Word Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon , Nathan M. White This volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages. 'Word' is a cornerstone for the understanding of any language: it is a pronounceable phonological unit; it has a meaning and a morphological structure and syntactic function; and it... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2020-11-05 PDF 89,90 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Genders and Classifiers Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , Elena I. Mihas This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2019-08-22 PDF 87,47 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Serial Verbs Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2018-10-18 PDF 31,58 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2018-01-18 PDF 98,40 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Commands Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon This book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders--from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech acts with... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2017-07-04 PDF 30,36 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies How Gender Shapes the World Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way gender is articulated shapes the world of individuals, and of the... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2016-09-05 PDF 32,79 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Art of Grammar Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures.... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2014-11-24 PDF 47,37 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Grammar of Knowledge Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon 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.The book investigates... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2014-02-28 PDF 31,58 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Possession and Ownership Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of humankind. Possessive... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2012-12-06 PDF 35,23 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Languages of the Amazon Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2012-05-18 PDF 52,23 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2010-06-17 ePub 55,88 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Semantics of Clause Linking Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon 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 complement clause... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2009-08-06 PDF 40,08 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Semantics of Clause Linking Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon 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 complement clause... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2009-08-06 ePub 40,08 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2008-09-04 PDF 55,88 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Grammars in Contact Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R.M.W. Dixon 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 and borrowing. Some... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2007-01-04 PDF 35,23 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Complementation Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R.M.W. Dixon A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France]. Languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses, and the types of verbs which take them. Some languages... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2006-06-22 PDF 32,79 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use, and in the forms they employ to express these. Such resemblances may be the consequence of universal characteristics of language, of chance or coincidence, of the... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2006-03-02 PDF 48,59 €
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