The Languages Of The Kimberley Western Australia

Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UCSC:32106019313961

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Handbook of Kimberley Languages: General information by William McGregor Pdf

Author : Tasaku Tsunoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118235600

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The Djaru Language of Kimberley, Western Australia by Tasaku Tsunoda Pdf

Background information, comparison with neighbouring languages, previous works; phonology, work classes, syntax, morphology, avoidance language; texts.

Author : Nick Thieberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UOM:39015032596127

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Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region by Nick Thieberger Pdf

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 McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020343377

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Studies in Kimberley Languages in Honour of Howard Coate by William McGregor Pdf

Author : Mark Clendon
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781922064592

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Worrorra by Mark Clendon Pdf

The Kimberley Arafuran language Worrorra was spoken traditionally on the remote coastline and precipitously beautiful hinterland between the Walcott Inlet and the Prince Regent River. The language described here is that attested by its last full speakers, Patsy Lulpunda, Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah. Patsy Lulpunda was a child when Europeans first entered her country in 1912, and Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah both grew up on the Kunmunya mission. This comprehensive and detailed grammar provides as well an historical and cultural context for a society now drastically altered. In the 1950s Worrorra people left their traditional land and from the 1970s the number of people speaking Worrorra as their first language declined dramatically. Worrorra is a highly polysynthetic language, characterised by overarching concord and a high degree of morphological fusion. Verbal semantics involve a voicing opposition and an extensive system of evidentiality-marking. Worrorra has elaborate systems of pragmatic reference, a derivational morphology that projects agreement-class concord across most lexical categories and complex predicates that incorporate one verb within another. Nouns are distributed among five genders, the intensional properties of which define dynamic oppositions between men and women on the one hand, and earth and sky on the other. This volume will be of interest to morphologists, syntacticians, semanticists, anthropologists, typologists, and readers interested in Australian language and culture generally.

Author : William McGregor,Alan Rumsey
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132779567

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Worrorran Revisited by William McGregor,Alan Rumsey Pdf

Author : Macquarie Dictionary
Publisher : Macquarie
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781760786977

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Macquarie Aboriginal Words by Macquarie Dictionary Pdf

Macquarie Aboriginal Words is a dictionary of words from a selection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. This ebook covers the languages of Nyungar, Gooniyandi, and Yindjibarndi from Western Australia. For each language, the following information is provided: · a brief history of the language · points on the grammar, spelling and pronunciation · an extensive wordlist organised by categories, such as animals, body parts, kin relationships, placenames, etc. · a dual index, i.e. English to Language and Language to English This ebook series is based on Macquarie Aboriginal Words originally published in print in 1994. The sheer diversity of indigenous languages in Australia must be close to the greatest and richest component of this country's national cultural heritage ... This book is much needed, as it gives a sense of the richness of a heritage which is disappearing in many areas of the country. NOEL PEARSON

Author : William McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Juliette Blevins
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824823753

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Nhanda by Juliette Blevins Pdf

This book presents the first detailed sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. This language was once spoken along the lower Murchison River, from Kalbarri inland, and south to present-day Northampton and Geraldton, but has remained largely unknown until recent years. Nhanda is based on the author's fieldwork in Western Australia from 1993 to 1998 with one of the last speakers of the language, and also incorporates notes of early explorers and linguists who passed through the area. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a comprehensive study of Nhanda sound patterns, major sections on nominal and verbal morphology, and descriptions of simple sentences and constituent order. Each chapter is rich in data and provides comparative evidence with important implications for historical relationships between the languages of Australia. The volume also includes Nhanda-English and English-Nhanda alphabetical vocabularies and an alphabetical list of Nhanda affixes.

Author : Kimberley Language Resource Centre Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1875167137

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Guide to Writing Languages of the Kimberley by Kimberley Language Resource Centre Staff Pdf

Author : Harold Koch,Rachel Nordlinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110395129

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The Languages and Linguistics of Australia by Harold Koch,Rachel Nordlinger Pdf

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.

Author : Stephen A. Wurm,Peter Mühlhäusler,Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110819724

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Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas by Stephen A. Wurm,Peter Mühlhäusler,Darrell T. Tryon Pdf

“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.

Author : Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans,Luisa Miceli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290960

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Morphology and Language History by Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans,Luisa Miceli Pdf

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.

Author : Claire Bowern,Harold Koch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295118

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Australian Languages by Claire Bowern,Harold Koch Pdf

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.