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Eastern and Central Arrernte to English Dictionary

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File Size : 10,68 MB

Release : 2020-12-20

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ISBN : 9781864651560

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Eastern and Central Arrernte are strong languages spoken every day by about 2000 people in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) and other communities in Central Australia. For Arrernte people, their language is important in a way that goes beyond straightforward communication; it links them with their family, with their country and with their dreamings.Some of the special features of this revised dictionary include:? Over 6000 entries and subentries with definitions and extensive example sentences? Extensive English to Arrernte word finder list? A guide to pronunciation, grammar and writing system? An introduction to Arrernte family and society? An extensive range of illustrations.



A Learner's Guide to Eastern and Central Arrernte

Author : Jennifer Anne Green

Publisher :

Page : 112 pages

File Size : 32,37 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Foreign Language Study

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Eastern and Central Arrernte are strong languages, spoken every day by about 2000 people in many communities in Central Australia. For Arrernte people, their language is important in a way that goes beyond straightforward communication. It links them with their family and their country. This fully revised learner's guide is an excellent introduction to the Arrernte language. It explains the structure of the language in a clear way, without using linguistic jargon. Special features include sections on kinship, useful words and phrases, and a guide to pronunciation and spelling. A separate audio cassette contains readings of the sample sentences and dialogues in the guide, as well as additional information about the sounds of Arrernte.



Eastern and Central Arrernte Picture Dictionary

Author : Neil Broad

Publisher : Iad Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 12,57 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Eastern Arrernte language

ISBN : 9781864650709

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"This is a tool for people to gain or improve literacy in Eastern and Central Arrernte. It may also be useful for Eastern and Central Arrernte speakers to gain or improve literacy in English."--Provided by publisher.



Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past

Author : Diane J. Austin-Broos

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 343 pages

File Size : 18,55 MB

Release : 2009-08-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0226032655

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The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte’s contemporary situation, Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years. Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present, marginalized position in the modern Australian economy. While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities, she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity.



Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary

Author : Anna Kenny

Publisher : ANU Press

Page : 399 pages

File Size : 28,75 MB

Release : 2018-08-10

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1760462071

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Carl Strehlow’s comparative dictionary manuscript is a unique item of Australian cultural heritage; it is a large collection of circa 7,600 Aranda, 6,800 Loritja (Luritja) and 1,200 Dieri to German entries compiled at the beginning of the twentieth century at the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia. It is an integral part of Strehlow’s ethnographic work on Aboriginal cultures that his German editor Baron Moritz von Leonhardi published as Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (Strehlow 1907–1920) in Frankfurt. Strehlow and his editor had planned to publish a language study that included this comparative dictionary, but it remained unpublished until now due to a number of complicated historical and personal circumstances of the main characters involved with the dictionary. Strehlow’s linguistic work is historically and anthropologically significant because it probably represents the largest and most comprehensive wordlist of Indigenous languages compiled in Australia during the early stages of contact. It is an important primary source for Luritja and Aranda speakers. Both languages are spoken in homes and taught in schools in central Australia. The reasons for presenting this work as a heritage dictionary—that is, as an exact transcription of the original form of the handwritten manuscript—are to follow the Western Aranda people’s wishes and to maintain its historical authenticity, which will prove to be of great use to both Indigenous people and scholars interested in language.



Words and Meanings

Author : Cliff Goddard

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 323 pages

File Size : 50,12 MB

Release : 2013-11-28

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0191645427

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In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri, and Malay. Some are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. They ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures and draw on work ranging from Leibniz, Locke, and Bentham, to popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the Dalai Lama on happiness. The book opens with a review of the neglected status of lexical semantics in linguistics. The authors consider a range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics, and the concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words.



Word

Author : R. M. W. Dixon

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 27,75 MB

Release : 2003-01-02

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1139436589

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In some languages words tend to be rather short but in others they may be dauntingly long. In this book, a distinguished international group of scholars discuss the concept 'word' and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages. An introductory chapter sets the parameters of variation for 'word'. The nine chapters that follow then study the character of 'word' in individual languages, including Amazonian, Australian Aboriginal, Eskimo, Native North American, West African, Balkan and Caucasian languages, and Indo-Pakistani Sign Language. These languages exhibit a huge range of phonological and grammatical characteristics, the close study of which enables the contributors to refine our understanding of what can constitute a 'word'. An epilogue explores the status and cross-linguistic properties of 'word'. The book will be an invaluable resource for scholars of linguistic typology and of morphology and phonology.



Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics

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Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 26924 pages

File Size : 20,43 MB

Release : 2005-11-24

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0080547842

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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



Night Parrot

Author : Penny Olsen

Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 40,57 MB

Release : 2018-09-01

Category : Science

ISBN : 1486303005

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For well over a century, the Night Parrot lured its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback. From the beginning it was a mysterious bird. Fewer than 30 specimens were collected before it all but disappeared, offering only fleeting glimpses and the occasional mummified body as proof of its continued existence. Protected by spinifex and darkness, the parrot attained almost mythical status: a challenge to birdwatchers and an inspiration to poets, novelists and artists. Night Parrot documents the competitiveness and secrecy, the triumphs and adventures of the history of the bird and its followers, culminating in the recent discovery of live birds at a few widely scattered locations. It describes what we are now unravelling about the mysteries of its biology and ecology and what is still left to learn. Complemented by guest essays, illustrations and photographs from a wide variety of sources, this book sheds light on Australia's most elusive bird.



The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

Author : Päivi Juvonen

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 565 pages

File Size : 19,21 MB

Release : 2016-08-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110393069

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The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.