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Author : Kathleen Glasgow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018274980
Illustrated Burarra-Gun-nartpa dictionary with sentence examples and synonyms; English finder list; list of morpho -phonemic changes, description of word classes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:271847984
Illustrated Burarra-Gun-nartpa dictionary with sentence examples and synonyms; English finder list; list of morpho -phonemic changes, description of word classes.
Author : Dana Louagie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501512872
This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, quantification, determination and constituency. The analysis is based on a representative sample of 100 languages. Among other points, the results call into question the classic idea that Australian languages tend to lack phrasal structures in the nominal domain, with over two thirds of the languages showing evidence for phrasehood. Moreover, it is argued that it may be more interesting to typologise languages on the basis of where and how they allow phrasal structure, rather than on the basis of a yes-no answer to the question of constituency. The analysis also shows that a determiner slot can be identified in about half of the languages, even though they generally lack 'classic' determiner features like obligatory use in particular contexts or a restriction to one determiner per NP. Special attention is given to elements, which can be used both inside and beyond determiner slots, demonstrating how part of speech and functional structure do not always align. The book is of interest to researchers documenting Australian languages, as well as to typologists and theorists.
Author : John Newman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229984
This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world's languages. The highly multifaceted nature of 'eat' and 'drink' events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive constructions involving 'eat' and 'drink' in some languages. The two verbs are also sources for a large number of figurative uses across languages with meanings such as 'destroy', and 'savour', as well as participating in a great variety of idioms which can be quite opaque semantically. Grammaticalized extensions of these predicates also occur, such as the quantificational use of Hausa shaa 'drink' meaning (roughly) 'do X frequently, regularly'. Specialists discuss details of the use of these verbs in a variety of languages and language families: Australian languages, Papuan languages, Athapaskan languages, Japanese, Korean, Hausa, Amharic, Hindi-Urdu, and Marathi.
Author : Diana Santos,Krister Lindén,Wanjiku Ng’ang’a
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642307737
There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. His insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic rationality have spawned findings and research work in many areas, from non-standard etymology to hardcore formal linguistics, not forgetting computational areas such as parsing, terminological databases, and, last but not least, machine translation. In addition to his renowned and widely acknowledged insights in tense and aspect and its relationship with nominal quantification, and his ground-breaking work in dialog using game-theoretic machinery, Lauri has in the last fifteen years as Professor of Language Theory and Translation Technology contributed immensely to areas such as translation, terminology and general applications of computational linguistics. The three editors of the present volume have successfully performed doctoral studies under Lauri’s supervision, and wish with this volume to pay tribute to his supervision and to his influence in matters associated with research and scientific, linguistic and philosophical inquiry, as well as to his humanity and friendship.
Author : Wendy Anderson,Carole P. Biggam,Carole Hough,Christian Kay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269195
This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science. The chapters have been developed from papers and posters presented at the Progress in Colour Studies (PICS12) conference held at the University of Glasgow. Papers from the earlier PICS04 and PICS08 conferences were published by John Benjamins as Progress in Colour Studies, 2 volumes, 2006 and New Directions in Colour Studies, 2011, respectively. The opening chapter of this new volume stems from the conference keynote talk on prehistoric colour semantics by Carole P. Biggam. The remaining chapters are grouped into three sections: colour and linguistics; colour categorization, naming and preference; and colour and the world. Each section is preceded by a short preface drawing together the themes of the chapters within it. There are thirty-one colour illustrations.
Author : Sambulo Ndlovu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110759297
This book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics. It addresses names and cultures from 16 countries and five continents, thus offering readers an opportunity to comprehend and compare names and naming practices across cultures. The chapters presented in this book explore the cultural significance of personal names, naming ceremonies, conventions and practices. They illustrate how these names and practices perform certain culture-specific functions, such as religion, identity and social activity. Some chapters address the socio-political significance of personal names and their expression of self and otherness. The book also links the linguistic structure of personal names to culture by looking at their morphology, syntax and semantics. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 demonstrates how personal names perform human culture, Section 2 focuses on how personal names index socio-political transitioning, Section 3 demonstrates religious values in personal names and naming, and Section 4 links linguistic structure and analysis of personal names to culture and heritage.
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110870879
This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical origins and grammaticisation of these systems, and suggestions regarding the grammatical relations involved. In addition, an attempt is made to situate the phenomenon of verb classification within the context of related verbal phenomena such as serial verb constructions, nominal incorporation, and complex predicates.
Author : Peter Sutton
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780522856361
Peter Sutton is a fearless and authoritative voice in Aboriginal politics. In this groundbreaking book, he asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? The picture Sutton presents is tragic. He marshals shocking evidence against the failures of the past, and argues provocatively that three decades of liberal consensus on Aboriginal issues has collapsed. Sutton is a leading Australian anthropologist who has lived and worked closely with Aboriginal communities. He combines clear-eyed, original observation with deep emotional engagement. The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.
Author : Amanda Harris,Linda Barwick,Professor Jakelin Troy
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781743328699
Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creative research. In this edited volume, Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy bring together performing artists, cultural leaders and interdisciplinary scholars to highlight the limits of archival records of music and dance. Through artistic methods drawn from Indigenous methodologies, dance studies and song practices, the contributors explore modes of re-embodying archival records, renewing song practices, countering colonial narratives and re-presenting performance traditions. The book’s nine chapters are written by song and dance practitioners, curators, music and dance historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists, who explore music and dance by Indigenous people from the West, far north and southeast of the Australian continent, and from Aotearoa New Zealand, Taiwan and Turtle Island (North America). Music, Dance and the Archive interrogates historical practices of access to archives by showing how Indigenous performing artists and community members and academic researchers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are collaborating to bring life to objects that have been stored in archives. It not only examines colonial archiving practices but also creative and provocative efforts to redefine the role of archives and to bring them into dialogue with contemporary creative work. Through varied contributions the book seeks to destabilise the very definition of “archives” and to imagine the different forms in which cultural knowledge can be held for current and future Indigenous stakeholders. Music, Dance and the Archive highlights the necessity of relationships, Country and creativity in practising song and dance, and in revitalising practices that have gone out of use.
Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521599717
This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.
Author : C. P. Biggam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521899925
This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.
Author : Patrick McConvell,Piers Kelly,Sébastien Lacrampe
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760461645
Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191571459
In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most satisfactory and profitable ways to work, and the pitfalls to avoid. In the first volume he addresses the methodology for recording, analysing, and comparing languages. He argues that grammatical structures and rules should be worked out inductively on the basis of evidence, explaining in detail the steps by which an attested grammar and lexicon can built up from observed utterances. He shows how the grammars and words of one language may be compared to others of the same or different families, explains the methods involved in cross-linguistic parametric analyses, and describes how to interpret the results. Volume 2 and volume 3 (to be published in 2011) offer in-depth tours of underlying principles of grammatical organization, as well as many of the facts of grammatical variation. 'The task of the linguist,' Professor Dixon writes, 'is to explain the nature of human languages - each viewed as an integrated system - together with an explanation of why each language is the way it is, allied to the further scientific pursuits of prediction and evaluation.' Basic Linguistic Theory is the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's thinking about every aspect and manifestation of language and immersion in linguistic fieldwork. It is a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, as well as for those in neighbouring disciplines, such as psychology and anthropology.
Author : Tom Güldemann,Patrick McConvell,Richard A. Rhodes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107003682
Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.