Download Full eBooks in PDF
An Attempt Towards A Comparative Grammar Of Two Australian Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of An Attempt Towards A Comparative Grammar Of Two Australian Languages book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Nils Magnus Holmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Dhungutti language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033549341
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980-07-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521223296
A study of the more than two hundred different Aboriginal languages of Australia. Professor Dixon deals first with the general character of these languages, and their use and role in Australia today. He stresses that they are in no sense 'primitive' languages, but have a rich and complex grammar with the many subtle and distinctive features. He goes on to demonstrate this in the first-ever study of their genetic relationships, probable origins and historical development, and their grammatical and phonological behaviour. This is in many ways a pioneering work, and a fundamental one. The Press has already published two major scholarly studies by Professor Dixon of individual Australian languages, Dyirbal and Yidin. He offers here the synthesis that they pointed towards, provisional still in many of its details, but sufficiently convincing in outline to stimulate the next stage of professional research, to provide the general linguist with the kind of survey to the interested Australian something of the extraordinary linguistic heritage of the continent, now and for some time past seriously at risk.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1972-12-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521085101
Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they lived in harmony with each other and with their environment. Over one hundred years ago many of them were shot and poisoned by European invaders. Those allowed to survive have been barely tolerated tenants on their own lands, and have had their beliefs, habits and language help up to ridicule and scorn. In the last decade they have seen their remaining forests taken and cleared by an American company, with the destruction of sites whose remembered antiquity is many thousands of years older than the furthest event in the shallow history of their desecrators. The survivors of the three tribes have stood up to these diversities with dignity and humour. They continue to look forward to the day when they may again be allowed to live in peaceful possession of some of their own lands, and may be accorded a respect that they have been denied, but which they have been forcibly made to accord to others.
Author : S. A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110808292
No detailed description available for "Languages of Australia and Tasmania".
Author : R. M. W. Dixon,Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521473781
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
Author : Robert Mailhammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614510581
Traditionally, etymology is concerned with the study of lexical items. However, in this book etymology is understood more generally as a research approach concerned with the question of how a particular word or structure came into existence. As a result, etymology can investigate the origin of words (lexical etymology) but also structural elements, such as morphemes and constructions (structural etymology). This pioneer volume assembles thirteen etymological studies over a broad range of languages, ranging from Europe to Australia and the Pacific, focusing in particular on Australian Indigenous languages. The phenomena investigated in the contributions comprise the origin of Australian Indigenous place names and kinship terms, constructions and word histories in Oceanic languages, typological investigations as well as papers on the methodology of etymological research. This volume is intended for a scholarly audience including intermediate and advanced university students with an interest in historical linguistic, especially in etymology, but also semantics, toponymy and language contact.
Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1179 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192558497
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive and accessible guide to the their vast linguistic diversity. This volume fills that gap, bringing together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide an up-to-date guide to all aspects of the languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology, documentation, and classification; linguistic structures from phonology to pragmatics and discourse; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers grammatical sketches of a selection of languages, sub-groups, and families. At a time when the number of living Australian languages is significantly reduced even compared to twenty year ago, this volume establishes priorities for future linguistic research and contributes to the language expansion and revitalization efforts that are underway.
Author : R.M.W. Dixon,Barry J. Blake
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273550
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. In the introduction the editors discuss some of the recurrent features of languages across the continent, together with grammars of Guugu Yimidhirr by John Haviland; Pitta-Pitta by Barry J. Blake; Gumbaynggir by Diana Eades; and Yaygir by Terry Crowley.
Author : Robert M. W. Dixon,Barry J. Blake
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027205124
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. In the introduction the editors discuss some of the recurrent features of languages across the continent, together with grammars of Guugu Yimidhirr by John Haviland; Pitta-Pitta by Barry J. Blake; Gumbaynggir by Diana Eades; and Yaygir by Terry Crowley.
Author : Gerhard Leitner,Ian G. Malcolm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197846
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in any of the areas concerned. The collection edited by Leitner and Malcolm fills this gap. Looking at Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and their changing habitats from pre-colonial times to the present, the book covers languages from a structural and functional linguistic perspective, moves on to the issue of cultural maintenance and then turns to language policy, planning and the educational and legal dimensions. Among the many themes discussed are: the social and linguistic history of language contact after 1788 (including the Macassans); the demographic base of indigenous languages; traditional indigenous languages; results of language contact such as the modification of traditional languages and the rise of contact languages (pidgins, creoles, esp. Kriol, Torres Strait Creole, and Aboriginal English); the impact of the Aboriginal languages on mainstream Australian English; maintenance, shift, revival and documentation of indigenous and contact languages; language planning; language in education; language in the media; language in the law courts. The contributors are leading experts in their fields. The book can serve as a reader for university courses but also as a state-of-the-art work and resource for specialists like applied linguists or educational planners.
Author : Jeff Siegel
Publisher : Les Editions Fides
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Creole dialects, English
ISBN : 2762120985
Author : Claire Lefebvre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287434
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a “definable typological class” (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.
Author : Barry Blake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317918325
This study covers a number of topics that are prominent in the grammars of Australian Aboriginal languages, especially ergativity and manifestations of the hierarchy that runs from the speech-act participants down to inanimates. This hierarchy shows up in case marking, number marking and agreement, advancement and cross-referencing. Chapter 1 provides an overall picture of Australian languages. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 deal with case systems, including voice alternations and other advancements. Chapter 5 deals with the distribution of case marking within the noun phrase. Chapter 6 deals with systems that allow the cross-referencing of bound pronouns. Chapter 7 deals with clauses which appear to have more than one verb. Chapter 8 deals with compound and complex sentences. Chapter 9 deals with word order, and emphasises a theme introduced in Chapter 5, namely the widespread use of discontinuous phrases. Chapter 10 draws together ergativity and various manifestations of the hierarchy, and attempts to interpret their distribution. The final section provides an interesting hypothesis about the evolution of core grammar in Australia.
Author : J. D. Bowen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111418827
No detailed description available for "Linguistics in Oceania".
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1704 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317976257
RLE: Linguistics Mini-set F gathers together a collection of out of print titles on World Languages. These essential works, all from key international linguists, include Australian Aborginal Grammar, The Northwest Caucasian Languages, Plains Cree Morphosyntax, Object and Absolutive in Halkoelem Salish and The Correct Language: Tojolabal.
