Author: Australian Institute of Aboriginal StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Languages of Cape York
Author: Australian Institute of Aboriginal StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
Author: Jean-Christophe VerstraetePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 902726760X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland, whose work has inspired all of the contributors. The papers in the volume are organized in terms of five key themes, including the use of historical and archaeological methods to reconstruct aspects of language and social organization, anthropological and linguistic work uncovering aspects of world view embedded in languages and ethnographic data sets, the study of post-contact transformations in language and society, and the return of archival data to communities. Its thematic intersections draw together the varied disciplinary threads in an overview of the cultures and languages of the region, and will appeal to all those interested in Australian Aboriginal studies, linguistics, anthropology and associated disciplines.
Languages and Their Status
Author: Timothy ShopenPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812212495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An introduction both to languages themselves and to their social role, Languages and Their Status gives insight into the meaning, value, and function of language within culture and into the ways language behavior varies and changes. It examines the part languages play in the evolution and structure of communities and, in turn, the ways languages are shaped by the social forces impinging on their speakers. Each chapter discusses what it means to be a speaker of a particular language and puts that language in context among the languages of the world. This volume is complemented by a second volume entitled Languages and Their Speakers, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Language in Australia
Author: Suzanne RomainePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521339834
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Linguists and non-linguists will find in this volume a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia.
The Languages of Australia
Author: R. M. W. DixonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108017851
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
Author: Claire BowernPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198824971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1179
Book Description
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.
Handbook of Australian Languages
Author: Robert M. W. DixonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027205124
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
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.
Handbook of Australian Languages
Author: R.M.W. DixonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027273553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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.
Language Typology and Historical Contingency
Author: Balthasar BickelPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027270805
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions? This collection of articles by prominent scholars in typology seeks to address these issues from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, utilizing cutting-edge typological methodology. The phenomena considered range from the phonological to the morphosyntactic, the areal coverage ranges in scale from micro-areal to worldwide, and the types of historical contingency range from contact-based to genealogical in nature. Together, the papers argue strongly for a view in which, although they use distinct methodologies, linguistic typology and historical linguistics are one and the same enterprise directed at discovering how languages came to be the way they are and how linguistic types came to be distributed geographically as they are.
Australian Languages
Author: R. M. W. DixonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521473780
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.