Author : Harold Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 19,43 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 : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 34,94 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 : Claire Bowern
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781588115126
This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages 'different' in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be successfully undertaken using the Comparative Method? Is the genetic construct of a far-flung 'Pama-Nyungan' language family supportable by classic methods of reconstruction? Contrary to increasingly established views of the Australian scene, this book makes a major contribution to the demonstration that traditional methods can indeed be applied to these languages. These studies, introduced by chapters on subgrouping methodology and the history of Australian linguistic classification, rigorously apply the comparative method to establishing subgroups among Australian languages and justifying the phonology of Proto-Pama-Nyungan. Individual chapters can profitably be read either for their contribution to Australian linguistic prehistory or as case studies in the application of the comparative method. Contributions by: B. Alpher; B. Baker; C. Bowern; C. Bowern & H. Koch; G. Breen; L. Campbell; I. Green & R. Nordlinger; L. Hercus & P. Austin; H. Koch; P. McConvell & M. Laughren; L. Miceli; G. O'Grady & K. L. Hale; J. Simpson & L. Hercus.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521473780
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
Author : Suzanne Romaine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521339834
Linguists and non-linguists will find in this volume a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia.
Author : Harold Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 26,96 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 : Ilana Mushin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902720571X
Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality. The papers are based on individual fieldwork and describe a wide range of Australian languages of different types, ranging from the polysynthetic languages of Arnhem Land and the Kimberley to the classical types represented by Walpiri. Topics covered include the pragmatics of information exchange, the interaction of noun class marking with polarity and referentiality, the effects of specificity on argument indexing, the discourse uses of the ergative case, the contribution of pronouns to NP reference, the interaction of tense and aspect clitics with information structure, clause-initial position, and discourse and grammar in Australian languages. The volume will appeal to scholars interested in discourse, typology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
Author : Bill Palmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110295253
The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.
Author : Felicity Meakins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,38 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 : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110558149
The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.
