How Long to Read A Grammar of Akabea

How Long Does it Take to Read A Grammar of Akabea?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 49 minutes to read A Grammar of Akabea by Raoul Zamponi

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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 and its 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 online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman's Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie's 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 consisting solely 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.

How long is A Grammar of Akabea?

A Grammar of Akabea by Raoul Zamponi is 457 pages long, and a total of 117,449 words.

This makes it 154% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Grammar of Akabea Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 41 minutes to read A Grammar of Akabea aloud.

What Reading Level is A Grammar of Akabea?

A Grammar of Akabea is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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