Nyulnyul

Author : William B. McGregor,Søren Wichmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264138

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The Diachrony of Classification Systems by William B. McGregor,Søren Wichmann Pdf

Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in which linguistic classification systems arise, change, and dissipate in both natural circumstances and in circumstances of attrition. The role of diffusion in such processes is explored, as well as the question of what can be diffused. The volume is not restricted to nominal systems of classification, but also includes papers dealing with the less well-known phenomenon of verbal classification. Languages from a wide spread of world regions are examined, including Africa, Amazonia, Australia, Eurasia, Oceania, and Mesoamerica. The volume will be of interest to linguistic typologists, descriptive linguists, historical linguists, and grammaticalization theorists.

Author : William McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017587564

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Nyulnyul by William McGregor Pdf

Phonetics, morphology and syntax of Nyulnyul a non-Pama-Nyungan language, one of the Nyulnyulan family, from Beagle Bay in West Kimberley Western Australia.

Author : William McGregor
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSD:31822038792651

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The Nyulnyul Language of Dampier Land, Western Australia by William McGregor Pdf

Author : Nikolaus P. Himmelmann,Eva F. Schultze-Berndt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191514029

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Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann,Eva F. Schultze-Berndt Pdf

Depictive secondary predicates, such as 'raw' in 'George ate the fish raw', are central to current issues in syntactic and semantic theory - in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication from a cross-linguistic perspective. It describes all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. It considers similarities and differences between secondary predicates and other types of adjuncts, including adverbials of manner, comparison, quantity, and location. The authors are leading scholars with a first-hand knowledge of the languages they discuss. Their approach is theory-neutral and pragmatic: they draw on insights and research traditions ranging from the minimalist program to semantic maps methodology. The book will interest scholars working on the semantics or syntax of secondary predicates, adverbials, and the role of agreement and other morphological marking. It has been designed for use in advanced syntax and typology classes.

Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134396023

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The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia by William B. McGregor Pdf

The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to children, most of whom speak Kriol (a new language that arose about half a century ago from an earlier Pidgin English) or Aboriginal English (a dialect of English) as their mother tongue and usual language of communication. This book describes the Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in this region.

Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110870879

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Verb Classification in Australian Languages by William B. McGregor Pdf

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 : Michael Cysouw
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191564994

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The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking by Michael Cysouw Pdf

This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Michael Cysouw develops a new framework for the typology of person marking based on the rejection of the notion of plurality for its analysis. When a mother says "Mummy is going to say goodnight now", Mummy is the person marker in a way that in English is confined to motherese but which is used more commonly in some other languages and may also be characteristic of much earlier forms. Dr Cysouw divides the person markers of 400 languages into paradigms. He considers how the structure of these person paradigms relates to their function. His investigation provides a clear account of how person markers work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, language-relatedness, and the interfaces between discourse, syntax, and semantics. The combination of a typological and a comparative approach results in the first outline of a cognitive map of the paradigmatic structure of person marking.

Author : Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : PSU:000051118433

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015063397841

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Felicity Meakins,Carmel O'Shannessy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614518792

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Loss and Renewal by Felicity Meakins,Carmel O'Shannessy Pdf

Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.

Author : William McGregor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847063670

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Linguistics: An Introduction by William McGregor Pdf

A fresh and contemporary introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language studies. >

Author : Klaus Robering
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270627

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Events, Arguments, and Aspects by Klaus Robering Pdf

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.

Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780567488688

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Linguistics: An Introduction by William B. McGregor Pdf

This is the new edition of Linguistics: An Introduction. It is a bestselling introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language studies. This reworked edition features: -new chapters on sign languages, writing, and text and discourse -coverage of writing in electronic media -revised and updated chapters on languages of the world and psycholinguistics Firmly based around taught courses and catering to student needs, it addresses all the topics that a student will need in their study of language. With key terms, further reading, questions at the end of each chapter, exercises and key paragraphs in stand-out boxes, this is a firmly pedagogic text that takes difficult concepts and explains them in an easy to understand way. It features examples taken from a range of languages across the world. Global in its scope and comprehensive in its coverage, this is the textbook of choice for linguistics students. The book comes with a large Companion Website, also extensively revised and expanded. For lecturers and instructors, a comprehensive Answer Book is also available to go along with the questions throughout the chapters.

Author : Nicole Delbecque,Karen Lahousse,Willy Van Langendonck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269249

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Non-Nuclear Cases by Nicole Delbecque,Karen Lahousse,Willy Van Langendonck Pdf

In contrast with the central arguments of the event structure, which have been extensively studied, much less attention has been given to non-arguments. To bridge this gap, the present volume focuses on prepositional and adverbial phrases expressing instrumental, causal, spatial, temporal roles and the like, i.e. semantic roles which have been typically associated with oblique case. The various contributions show that case in general, and oblique case in particular, is at the intersection between form and meaning: at issue are the nuclear versus non-nuclear status of these phrases and the semantic roles they express. The import of these phrases on the event structure is described in a functional-cognitive perspective for Cora, Nyulnyul, German, Dutch, French and Spanish. The specific analyses of empirical phenomena presented in this volume, as well as their implications for linguistic theory in general, will be of interest for scholars interested in syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This is the sixth and final volume of the Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages project.

Author : Hilary Chappell,William McGregor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110822137

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The Grammar of Inalienability by Hilary Chappell,William McGregor Pdf

Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.