Author : Diana Eades
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Exhaustive study of now virtually extinct languages; classification of languages of NSW south coast; evaluation of sources; current situation; Dharawal and Dhurga phonology - phonetic inventory, phonotactics, comparative information; grammar syntax, nouns, pronouns, verbs, demonstratives, adverbs, prepositions, derivational processes; lexicon; see also for Yuin languages.
Author : James William Wafer
Publisher : Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
The handbook is a guide to Aboriginal languages, with illustrative vocabularies. It is divided into two parts: the first part, which includes maps, is a survey of the Indigenous languages of NSW and the ACT, giving information about dialects, locations, and resources available for language revitalisation; the second part provides word-lists in practical spelling for 42 distinct language varieties. There is also useful information on contact languages, sign languages and kinship classification, as well as an appendix on placenames. The handbook is a valuable reference and educational resource, useful to Aboriginal people who want to revitalise their language.
Author : Barry Alpher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311087265X
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 : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108017851
This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.
Author : R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1981-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027273545
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on four languages which are on the point of extinction, and an assessment of what linguistic impressions can be inferred from the scant material that is available on the extinct languages of Tasmania.
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 38,71 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 : Gerhard Leitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110197847
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in any of the areas concerned. The collection edited by Leitner and Malcolm fills this gap. Looking at Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and their changing habitats from pre-colonial times to the present, the book covers languages from a structural and functional linguistic perspective, moves on to the issue of cultural maintenance and then turns to language policy, planning and the educational and legal dimensions. Among the many themes discussed are: the social and linguistic history of language contact after 1788 (including the Macassans); the demographic base of indigenous languages; traditional indigenous languages; results of language contact such as the modification of traditional languages and the rise of contact languages (pidgins, creoles, esp. Kriol, Torres Strait Creole, and Aboriginal English); the impact of the Aboriginal languages on mainstream Australian English; maintenance, shift, revival and documentation of indigenous and contact languages; language planning; language in education; language in the media; language in the law courts. The contributors are leading experts in their fields. The book can serve as a reader for university courses but also as a state-of-the-art work and resource for specialists like applied linguists or educational planners.
Author : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110198967
In part I of this volume, experts on various language areas provide surveys of word stress/accent systems of as many languages in 'their' part of the world as they could lay their hands on. No preconditions (theoretical or otherwise) were set, but the authors were encouraged to use the StressTyp data in their chapters. Australian Languages (Rob Goedemans), Austronesian Languages (Ellen van Zanten, Ruben Stoel and Bert Remijsen), Papuan Languages (Ellen van Zanten and Philomena Dol), North American Languages (Keren Rice), South American Languages (Sergio Meira and Leo Wetzels), African Languages (Laura Downing), European Languages (Harry van der Hulst), Asian Languages (Harry van der Hulst and René Schiering), Middle Eastern Languages (Harry van der Hulst and Sam Hellmuth). There is an introductory chapter (Chapter 1) that will provide the reader with elementary terminology and theoretical tools to understand the variety of accentual systems that will be discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Chapter 2 has a double function. It presents an overview of stress patterns in Australian languages, but at the same time it is intended to (re-)familiarize readers with the coding, terminology and theoretical ideas of the StressTyp database. Chapter 11 presents statistical and typological information from the StressTyp database. Part II of this volume contains 'language profiles' which are, for each of the 511 languages contained in StressTyp (in 2009), extracts from the information that is contained in the database. This volume will be of interest to people in the field of theoretical phonology and language typology. It will function as a reference work for these groups of researchers, but also, more generally, for people working on syntax and other fields of linguistics, who might wish to know certain basic facts about the distribution of word accent systems
Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9027205124
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. In the introduction the editors discuss some of the recurrent features of languages across the continent, together with grammars of Guugu Yimidhirr by John Haviland; Pitta-Pitta by Barry J. Blake; Gumbaynggir by Diana Eades; and Yaygir by Terry Crowley.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521473780
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
