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Author : Barry Alpher Publisher : Walter de Gruyter Page : 808 pages File Size : 45,9 Mb Release : 2011-06-03 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9783110872651
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author : Jones E. Mondesir Publisher : Walter de Gruyter Page : 641 pages File Size : 41,5 Mb Release : 2011-06-03 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9783110877267
Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole by Jones E. Mondesir Pdf
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author : Jean-Christophe Verstraete,Bruce Rigsby Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 428 pages File Size : 48,6 Mb Release : 2015-03-10 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9781614519003
A Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka by Jean-Christophe Verstraete,Bruce Rigsby Pdf
This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material.
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages by Claire Bowern Pdf
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 : William B. McGregor Publisher : Walter de Gruyter Page : 560 pages File Size : 50,6 Mb Release : 2013-06-10 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9783110870879
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 : R. M. W. Dixon,Robert M. W. Dixon Publisher : Cambridge University Press Page : 780 pages File Size : 46,6 Mb Release : 2002-11-14 Category : Foreign Language Study ISBN : 9780521473781
Ideophones by Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz,Christa Kilian-Hatz Pdf
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 : Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 930 pages File Size : 52,5 Mb Release : 2021-03-08 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9783110692099
Associated Motion by Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch Pdf
This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.
- What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding of the cultural values that underpin human-environmental relations. Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, Uncommon Ground explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally constructed. This highly topical study also examines the long-term conflicts over land in Australia, which have brought to the surface each group's environmental values. The author considers how these values are acquired, and the universal and cultural factors that lead to their development. Major emphasis is put on the cultural forms that create and express environmental values for the Aborigines and the white pastoralists, such as: - historical background - land use and economic modes - socio-spatial organization - language, knowledge and methods of socialization - oral and visual representation - cosmological beliefs and systems of law This book is very accessible and should be widely used on anthropology, environmental studies and geography courses.]
Author : Alice R. Gaby Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 518 pages File Size : 54,8 Mb Release : 2017-11-07 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9783110459067
This grammar offers a comprehensive description of Kuuk Thaayorre, a Paman language spoken on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. The Paman languages of Cape York have long been recognized for their exhibition of considerable phonological, semantic and morphosyntactic change (e.g. Hale 1964, Dixon 1980). Yet there has until now been no published full reference grammar of a language from this area (some excellent dictionaries, theses and sketch grammars notwithstanding, e.g. Hall 1972, Alpher 1973, 1991, Crowley 1983, Kilham et al. 1986, Sutton 1995, Smith & Johnson 2000). On the basis of elicited data, narrative and semi-spontaneous conversation recorded between 2002 and 2008, as well as archival materials, this grammar details the phonetics and phonology, morphosyntax, lexical and constructional semantics and pragmatics of one of the few indigenous Australian languages still used as a primary means of communication. Kuuk Thaayorre possesses features of typological interest at each of these levels.
Shall We Play the Festschrift Game? by Diana Santos,Krister Lindén,Wanjiku Ng’ang’a Pdf
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.
Luise Anna Hercus,Flavia Hodges,Jane Helen Simpson
Author : Luise Anna Hercus,Flavia Hodges,Jane Helen Simpson Publisher : University of Hawaii Press Page : 344 pages File Size : 50,5 Mb Release : 2002 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : UOM:39015056312716
The Land is a Map by Luise Anna Hercus,Flavia Hodges,Jane Helen Simpson Pdf
In the Indigenous communities thousands of placenames exist with little or no recognition. This work covers some of these names and describes the principles of bestowing names upon a place in different Indigenous groups.
