A Grammar of Akabea by Raoul Zamponi (English) Hardcover Book

Description: A Grammar of Akabea by Raoul Zamponi, Bernard Comrie Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. It makes valuable Akabea data accessible for the first time both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics. Publisher Description This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology andits phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an onlineappendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portmans Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comries Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language,such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consistingsolely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics. Author Biography Raoul Zamponi works primarily on little-known, extinct indigenous languages of the Americas and is currently working on a project for the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. He has previously held positions at the University of Siena and as Principal Investigator on a range of linguistic projects in Italy, Germany, and the USA. His work has been published in journals such as Anthropological Linguistics and InternationalJournal of American Linguistics as well as in edited volumes from OUP, De Gruyter, and Edinburgh University Press. Bernard Comrie is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.He is a world-renowned scholar in the areas of language universals and typology, historical linguistics, and linguistic fieldwork. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the author of several volumes, and the editor or co-editor of many more, including The World Atlas of Language Structures (OUP 2005). His most recent work has been in collaboration with population geneticists, archaeologists, and anthropologists in order to address questions relating to prehistoric human migrations. In2017 he received the Neil & Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics, a lifetime achievement award from the British Academy. Details ISBN 0198855796 ISBN-13 9780198855798 Title A Grammar of Akabea Author Raoul Zamponi, Bernard Comrie Format Hardcover Year 2020 Pages 464 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:142139795; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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