Author : Lynette Frances Oates
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Identification of phonemes and description of phonology; morphology and syntax; songs and narratives with English gloss; dictionary arranged in semantic domains and including place names, English to Muruwari wordlist.
Author : Lynette Frances Oates
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN :
Muruwari-English dictionary in semantic domains illustrated by sample sentences; includes kinterms, place names and activities for schools; notes on phonology and spelling, grammar including syntax and morphology; lists of plants and their uses; loanwords from English and ceremonial language.
Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248141
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.
Author : Gerhard Leitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,85 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 : James William Wafer
Publisher : Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 34,93 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 : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 10,79 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 : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521473780
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
Author : R.E. Asher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317851080
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Author : Luise Anna Hercus
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Essays on a range of linguistic, anthropological and demographic topics including oral histories in honour of Luise Hercus; individual essays separately annotated.
Author : Harold Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110395126
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.
