Author : John R. Sandefur
Publisher : Summer Institute of Linguistics Australian Aborigines Branch
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : John W. Harris
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Origins of pidgins and creoles; Northern Territory history in linguistic perspective; contact with Macassans and British settlements, Overland Telegraph and mining camps.
Author : Harold Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110279770
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 : Karen Manbullo
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780648260424
Written in Kriol and English, this is the story of Molly, a little pig who is rescued from the bush. She's taken back to the community where she finds a happy home. Happy, that is, apart from the local dogs who keep chasing and frightening her.Moli is greatly loved in her community, but what she loves most is Weet Bix. She loves it so much that it's not too long before little Moli is a very big pig indeed. So big, she now chases and frightens the local dogs. All in good fun, of course.The illustrations are an absolute delight, and watching Molly grow and grow and grow will bring a smile to readers' faces and outright laughter at the end.
Author : Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853590474
Includes papers on Aboriginal language planning, Aboriginal bilingual education and language and education in the Torres Strait separately annotated.
Author : Felicity Meakins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501501038
Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.
Author : Yaron Matras
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311019919X
The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110819724
“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
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1179 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198824971
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 : Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1351 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111053377
This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.
