This is a revised and expanded edition of Cowan and Rakušan’s Source Book for Linguistics. In addition to the chapters on Phonetics, Phonology, Phonological Alternations, Morphology, Syntax, Sound Change and Historical Reconstruction, there are two new chapters: one on Semantics and one on… read more
Edited by William Cowan, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner †
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) a conference was held in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada, where Sapir had his office for most of his time as Chief of the Anthropological Division of the Geographical Survey of Canada (1910-1925). This… read more
Developed at Carleton University, Ottawa, this is a comprehensive workbook now in its second, revised edition designed primarily for use with introductory courses in linguistics. With 334 graded excercises and problems from more than 60 languages and dialects. read more
SUMMARY In Montagnais, the obviative marker for singular animate nouns is -a; the obviative marker for singular inanimate nouns is -nu. However, in simple possessive constructions, an inanimate noun does not have the expected inanimate -nu, and in double possessive constructions, an animate noun… read more
In 1505 a Spanish priest, Pedro de Alcalá, published a short descriptive grammar and a dictionary of the Arabic dialect spoken in Granada. Although most of the grammatical concepts and terminology he used in this description were those of Latin grammar, he did use some concepts and terms taken… read more
