Bøger af Avelino Corral Esteban

Cheyenne provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.

This volume is composed of papers presented at the 1st. International Conference on theAsturian Language, which took place on 27 ¿ 28 April 2022 at the Universidad Autónomade Madrid. Said papers cover a wide range of disciplines related to the subject: education,historical linguistics, syntax, phonology, lexis, sociolinguistics, and literature, all focusedupon the three central themes around which the conference revolved: the distinctivenessof the Asturian language, its intimate relationship with the Asturian identity, andthe absolute necessity of insisting upon its status as an official Romance language so asto ensure its preservation and revitalization. On the occasion of the imminent publicdebate upon the question of its official status, this volume aims to serve as a tribute toall those who made it possible to reach this crucial stage. Hopefully it will also becomea contributing factor in conferring upon Asturian the prominence it deserves.

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.Based on fieldwork conducted on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, this book, which seeks to address descriptive and theoretical issues involving complex sentences, has three major aims: i) to present a morpho-syntactic, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic description of complex sentences in Cheyenne; ii) to investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic dimensions of complex sentences; and iii) to contribute to the research, preservation, and revitalization of this ancestral language spoken in the United States of America.This book will be informative for scholars interested in language typology, comparative linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and language documentation, as well as those interested in Cheyenne learning and teaching.