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Author : William McGregor,Alan Rumsey
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132779567
Author : Folke Josephson,Ingmar Söhrman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205704
The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.
Author : William McGregor,Alan Rumsey
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : OSU:32435080933203
Author : Harold Koch,Rachel Nordlinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110395129
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 : Dana Louagie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501512933
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 : P.G. Toner
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781925022636
For nearly four decades, Ian Keen has been an important, challenging, and engaging presence in Australian anthropology. Beginning with his PhD research in the mid-1970s and through to the present, he has been a leading scholar of Yolngu society and culture, and has made lasting contributions to a range of debates. His scholarly productivity, however, has never been limited to the Yolngu, and he has conducted research and published widely on many other facets of Australian Aboriginal society: on Aboriginal culture in ‘settled’ Australia; comparative historical work on Aboriginal societies at the threshold of colonisation; a continuing interest in kinship; ongoing writing on language and society; and a set of significant land claims across the continent. In this volume of essays in his honour, a group of Keen’s former students and current colleagues celebrate the diversity of his scholarly interests and his inspiring influence as a mentor and a friend, with contributions ranging across language structure, meaning, and use; the post-colonial engagement of Aboriginal Australians with the ideas and structures of ‘mainstream’ society; ambiguity and indeterminacy in Aboriginal symbolic systems and ritual practices; and many other interconnected themes, each of which represents a string that he has woven into the rich tapestry of his scholarly work.
Author : Vera da Silva Sinha,Ana Moreno-Núñez,Zhen Tian
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261243
The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity. The volume brings together selected peer-reviewed papers from the 7th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind with other specially commissioned chapters. Like the conference, this book aims to enhance mutual understanding among researchers from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, offering a wealth of insights to a wide range of readers on recent culturally oriented cognitive studies of language.
Author : Lars Borin,Anju Saxena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110305258
The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself but at the same time has acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics.
Author : Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans,Luisa Miceli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290960
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 : Tom Güldemann,Patrick McConvell,Richard A. Rhodes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 52,9 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.
Author : William B. McGregor,Søren Wichmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264138
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 : Claire Bowern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1179 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Ton Otto,Nils Bubandt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444351859
Experiments in Holism Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology presents a series of essays that critically examine the ongoing relevance of holism and its theoretical and methodological potential in today’s world. Contributions from a diverse collection of leading anthropologists reveal how recent critiques of the holistic approach have not led to its wholesale rejection, but rather to a panoply of experiments that critically reassess and reemploy holism. The essays focus on aspects of holism including its utilization in current ethnographic research, holistic considerations in cultural anthropology, the French structuralist tradition, the predominantly English tradition of social anthropology, and many others. Collectively, the essays show how holism is simultaneously central to, and problematically a part of, the theory and practice of anthropology. Experiments in Holism reveals how contemporary attempts to rescale and retool anthropology entail new ways of coming to terms with anthropology’s heritage of holism, seeking to obviate its current excesses while recapturing its critical potential to meet the challenges of our contemporary world.
Author : Thomas Edward Dutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSD:31822036570174
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : WISC:89091102699
