Author : Barry Alpher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 18,19 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 : Barry Alpher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110126822
Yir-Yoront/English dictionary, with English index; notes on phonology and orthography, grammatical categories, semantics and taxonomy, kin terms, respect vocabulary, lists of plants, birds with Latin and Yir-Yoront terms.
Author : Jones E. Mondesir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110877260
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 : Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1614519005
This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material.
Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1179 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192558498
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 : Leanne Hinton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521026772
A study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521473780
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110870878
This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical origins and grammaticisation of these systems, and suggestions regarding the grammatical relations involved. In addition, an attempt is made to situate the phenomenon of verb classification within the context of related verbal phenomena such as serial verb constructions, nominal incorporation, and complex predicates.
Author : Antoine Guillaume
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110692120
This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.
Author : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229465
The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language the language register, where gestures are used rather than written language.
