Author : Corinne J. Williams
Publisher : Intermediate Technology Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaaliyaay background information; phonology, grammar, texts and two-way lexicon; salvage study from earlier sources and tapes and two informants.
Author : Gianbattista Giacon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Kamilaroi language
ISBN :
Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay are closely related languages from the North of New South Wales which had dramatically declined in use and are now being reused by many Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay people in a variety of ways. This thesis expands the grammatical description of the languages, building in particular on Williams (1980). A wide range of sources from the mid-19th century to the tapes made in the 1970s are examined. Light is shed on them by the growing body of typology of Pama-Nyungan languages and in particular by Donaldson's (1980) Grammar of Wangaaybuwan, which along with Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay, Wayilwan and Wiradjuri form the Central New South Wales language sub-group. The main topics covered are nominal morphology (Chapters 2-6), verbal morphology (Chapters 7-9) and syntax (Chapters 10-11). Chapter 8 covers interrogatives, negatives, indefinites and ignoratives. Notable features of nominals include the complex, and not yet fully described, set of demonstratives. YG verbs have a wide range of stem forming suffixes, including distinctive Time of Day suffixes (morning, afternoon and night), and Distance in Time suffixes which subdivide the past and future. Included is the first description of the middle verb forms, which have a range of case frames. Where possible the grammar of the languages is described, with extensive evidence from the sources. Often there is currently unanalysable material, and this is often included, providing a starting point for further work on the languages. The thesis has an appendix, which contains background YG material and material from other languages. There is also a resource disc which has transcriptions of many of the source documents and tapes.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Children's songs
ISBN : 9781876400552
Author : John Giacon
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Kamilaroi language
ISBN : 9781760322380
Basic resource for people working on the rebuilding of Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay ; expands the grammatical description of these two languages, building on wide range of sources, including materials from the mid-19th century and audio recordings from the 1970s. The grammar encompasses the main features of Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay, including simple and complex clause structures, nominal and verbal morphology, which include a number of affixes distinctive to Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay.
Author : John Giacon
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1760463272
The Gamilaraay language declined in use for many years after the colonisation of Australia. From around 1990, Gamilaraay people and others have been working to revive the language. This book draws on recent research into previous records and analyses of Gamilaraay and of the closely related, and better recorded, Yuwaalaraay. It provides an introduction to many aspects of the language including verbs, the case system and the extensive pronoun paradigm, in a format that students have found very helpful for the last 12 years. Please note: Readers will need to download and open the PDF files in the latest version Adobe Acrobat to access and listen to the sound files within the book.
Author : Anna Ash
Publisher : Iad Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781864650518
The central north of New South Wales is the home of the Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaay people, one of the largest Aboriginal language groups in the state. For many years their languages were in decline, but in recent years they have been revived by a growing number of people in the area. This book is a result of their efforts. It contains the most extensive list of Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaay words yet published; detailed information about words, and example sentences to illustrate their uses; comprehensive word lists to locate words by their English equivalent; and a learner's guide to the grammar of the languages.
Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027290962
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.
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Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 26924 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080547842
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Author : Jean Fornasiero
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030509257
This volume encompasses the range of issues encountered by language scholars who teach and research in departments of languages and cultures within the higher education system, predominantly in Australia, but touching other universities worldwide. Related studies on language planning, methodology or pedagogy have focused on one or more of these same issues, but rarely on their totality. Intersections as a metaphor running discreetly through the essays in this volume, connects them all to a lived reality. The field of languages and cultures, as it is practised and reflected upon in Australian universities, is essentially an interdisciplinary and interconnecting space - one in which linguistic and disciplinary diversities meet and join forces, rather than collide or disperse along different pathways. The international and local studies featured here focus on language planning, new pedagogies and language reclamation and link to meeting points and commonalities. They show that language scholars are increasingly finding themselves on common ground as they tackle issues of policy and practice affecting their field, whether within their institutions, within the tertiary system, or within the framework of government policy.
Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198299547
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
