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Author : Tasaku Tsunoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118235600
Background information, comparison with neighbouring languages, previous works; phonology, work classes, syntax, morphology, avoidance language; texts.
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134396023
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 : Tasaku Tsunoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106019316618
Background information, comparison with neighbouring languages, previous works; phonology, work classes, syntax, morphology, avoidance language; texts.
Author : Nick Thieberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UVA:X002524552
Gives location, variant spelling, classification, linguistic situation, research and bibliographic information for all languages in regions south of Kimberleys; notes on Aboriginal English and Kriol; extensive annotated bibliography; indexes to variant language spellings, and to linguists.
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Claire Bowern,Harold Koch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295118
This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be successfully undertaken using the Comparative Method? Is the genetic construct of a far-flung ‘Pama-Nyungan’ language family supportable by classic methods of reconstruction? Contrary to increasingly established views of the Australian scene, this book makes a major contribution to the demonstration that traditional methods can indeed be applied to these languages. These studies, introduced by chapters on subgrouping methodology and the history of Australian linguistic classification, rigorously apply the comparative method to establishing subgroups among Australian languages and justifying the phonology of Proto-Pama-Nyungan. Individual chapters can profitably be read either for their contribution to Australian linguistic prehistory or as case studies in the application of the comparative method.
Author : Caroline Gentens,Lobke Ghesquière,William B. McGregor,An Van linden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254498
This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular, Semiotic Grammar and SFL), the Prague School, Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), and broader cognitive-functional (e.g. Construction Grammar) and usage-based approaches (e.g. Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization theory, corpus-based sociolinguistics). The range of topics addressed makes the volume particularly relevant to linguists investigating information structure, construction grammar, functional discourse grammar, spatial deixis, pronoun and case systems, and/or the semantics of verbal constructions.
Author : Ulrich Ammon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110860252
Author : R. M. W. Dixon,Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521473781
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108017855
This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.
Author : Harry van der Hulst,Rob Goedemans,Ellen van Zanten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198966
In part I of this volume, experts on various language areas provide surveys of word stress/accent systems of as many languages in 'their' part of the world as they could lay their hands on. No preconditions (theoretical or otherwise) were set, but the authors were encouraged to use the StressTyp data in their chapters. Australian Languages (Rob Goedemans), Austronesian Languages (Ellen van Zanten, Ruben Stoel and Bert Remijsen), Papuan Languages (Ellen van Zanten and Philomena Dol), North American Languages (Keren Rice), South American Languages (Sergio Meira and Leo Wetzels), African Languages (Laura Downing), European Languages (Harry van der Hulst), Asian Languages (Harry van der Hulst and René Schiering), Middle Eastern Languages (Harry van der Hulst and Sam Hellmuth). There is an introductory chapter (Chapter 1) that will provide the reader with elementary terminology and theoretical tools to understand the variety of accentual systems that will be discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Chapter 2 has a double function. It presents an overview of stress patterns in Australian languages, but at the same time it is intended to (re-)familiarize readers with the coding, terminology and theoretical ideas of the StressTyp database. Chapter 11 presents statistical and typological information from the StressTyp database. Part II of this volume contains 'language profiles' which are, for each of the 511 languages contained in StressTyp (in 2009), extracts from the information that is contained in the database. This volume will be of interest to people in the field of theoretical phonology and language typology. It will function as a reference work for these groups of researchers, but also, more generally, for people working on syntax and other fields of linguistics, who might wish to know certain basic facts about the distribution of word accent systems
Author : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz,Christa Kilian-Hatz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229465
The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language the language register, where gestures are used rather than written language.
Author : Andrej Malchukov,Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110429374
Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g. transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the world. The individual-language studies, each written by a specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters provide the background to the project and discuss its main characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an outside perspective on the volume’s approach. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual languages.
Author : William McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UCSC:32106019313961
Author : Myfany Turpin,Felicity Meakins
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9781743325841
The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are best known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by the station managers. The strike would become the first major victory of the Indigenous land rights movement. Many discussions of station life are focused on the harsh treatment of Aboriginal workers. Songs from the Stations describes another side of life on Wave Hill Station. Among the harsh conditions and decades of mistreatment, an eclectic ceremonial life flourished during the first half of the 20th century. Constant travel between cattle stations by Aboriginal workers across north-western and central Australia meant that Wave Hill Station became a crossroad of desert and Top End musical styles. As a result, the Gurindji people learnt songs from the Mudburra who came further east, the Bilinarra from the north, Western Desert speakers from the west, and the Warlpiri from the south. This book is the first detailed documentation of wajarra, public songs performed by the Gurindji people. Featuring five song sets known as Laka, Mintiwarra, Kamul, Juntara, and Freedom Day, it is an exploration of the cultural exchange between Indigenous communities that was fostered by their involvement in the pastoral industry.
