Publishing Partner: Cambridge University Press CUP Extra Publisher Login
amazon logo
More Info


New from Cambridge University Press!

ad

From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


Write better papers faster with Questia!

Book Information

   
Sun Image

Title: A Grammar of the Miship Language
Written By: Mohammed Aminu Mu'azu
Katwal Pemak Isah
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 78
Description:

Miship belongs to the West-Chadic sub-group of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, spoken by 17,000 people in Plateau State, Nigeria. This book consists of five chapters; the first part looks at the historical and ethnic backgrounds of the speakers of the Miship language, discusses its linguistics classifications and provides an overview of the dialects of the language. The second part deals with the sound system, which includes descriptions of the consonants, vowels sounds, other related phonological aspects, as well as the tonal system of the language. The third section discusses the nominal and verbal morphology of the language, covering such diverse dimensions, as the conventional nouns, verbs, inflections and other grammatical features, as well as ideophones and its structures. The fourth chapter treats syntactic features of the language using the Choamskian’s method of sentence analysis. Phrase structure tree diagrams are drawn, and phrase structure rules are established for some of the types of sentences that occur in the language and the concluding chapter presents the vocabulary of the language.

Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
Review: Read the review
BibTex: View BibTex record
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Miship

Versions:
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9783895869938
Pages: 209
Prices: Europe EURO 72.30