scholarly journals Review of J.J. de Ridder, Descriptive Grammar of Middle Assyrian

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-137
Author(s):  
Salvatore Gaspa
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Grammar

Quel corpus pour l’étude du dialecte niçois ?

2021 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-361
Author(s):  
Philippe Del Giudice
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Descriptive Grammar ◽  
Written Production ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social Use ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

Abstract A new project has just been launched to write a synchronic, descriptive grammar of Niçois, the Occitan dialect of Nice. In this article, I define the corpus of the research. To do so, I first review written production from the Middle Ages to the present. I then analyze the linguistic features of Niçois over time, in order to determine the precise starting point of the current language state. But because of reinforced normativism and the decreasing social use of Niçois among the educated population, written language after WWII became artificial and does not really correspond to recordings made in the field. The corpus will thus be composed of writings from the 1820’s to WWII and recordings from the last few decades.

Grammar of Skolt Saami

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Feist
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Vowel Length ◽  
Descriptive Grammar ◽  
Case Marking ◽  
Endangered Language ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
Northeast Finland

Skolt Saami is a Finno-Ugric language spoken primarily in northeast Finland by less than 300 people. The aim of this descriptive grammar is to provide an overview of all the major grammatical aspects of the language. It comprises descriptions of Skolt Saami phonology, morphophonology, morphology, morphosyntax and syntax. A compilation of interlinearised texts is provided in Chapter 11. Skolt Saami is a phonologically complex language, displaying contrastive vowel length, consonant gradation, suprasegmental palatalisation and vowel height alternations. It is also well known for being one of the few languages to display three distinctive degrees of quantity; indeed, this very topic has already been the subject of an acoustic analysis (McRobbie-Utasi 1999). Skolt Saami is also a morphologically complex language. Nominals in Skolt Saami belong to twelve different inflectional classes. They inflect for number and nine grammatical cases and may also mark possession, giving rise to over seventy distinct forms. Verbs belong to four different inflectional classes and inflect for person, number, tense and mood. Inflection is marked by suffixes, many of which are fused morphemes. Other typologically interesting features of the language, which are covered in this grammar, include (i) the existence of distinct predicative and attributive forms of adjectives, (ii) the case-marking of subject and object nominals which have cardinal numerals as determiners, and (iii) the marking of negation with a negative auxiliary verb. Skolt Saami is a seriously endangered language and it is thus hoped that this grammar will serve both as a tool to linguistic researchers and as an impetus to the speech community in any future revitalisation efforts.

A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR ABOUT GENDER

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (96) ◽  
pp. 30-30
Author(s):  
Mia S. Willis
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Grammar

Arabic Grammatical Terminology in Pedro De Alcalá

1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 357-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Grammar ◽  
Classical Arabic

Summary 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 from the tradition of the Arab grammarians in their analysis of Classical Arabic. These terms are presented here with commentary on Pedro de Alcalá’s use of them.

Forming Spiritual Fuṣaḥāʾ

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Dominic Longo
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Ultimate Reality ◽  
Descriptive Grammar ◽  
Grammatical Competence ◽  
Starting Point

This chapter explains how to read Qushayrī’s Grammar of Hearts through providing a textual analysis of 20 of the 60 sections in the text, including background ideas necessary for understanding this “spiritual grammar.” Qushayrī, like Gerson, takes as his starting point an assumption of his reader’s familiarity with Arabic grammar. As such, he does not dwell on linguistic niceties or details, for they are not his concern. He rather invokes grammatical terms, concepts, and phenomena familiar to his reader in order to proceed to spiritual matters. Like the foundational grammatical text of the Arabic linguistic tradition, Sībawayhi’s famous Kitāb, Qushayrī’s Grammar of Hearts combines prescriptive and descriptive grammar for the purpose of developing Sufi “grammatical competence” among his readers. Ever the shaykh in both the pedagogical and spiritual dimensions, Qushayrī is a “spiritual faṣīḥ” and wants his students to become similarly adept in the grammar of ultimate reality.

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