Author: Arthur CapellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Some Linguistic Types in Australia
Author: Arthur CapellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Some linguistic types in Australia: Handbook of Australian languages
Author: Arthur CapellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian languages
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia
Author: Harold KochPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110279770
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
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.
Handbook of Australian Languages
Author: Arthur CapellDiscourse and Grammar in Australian Languages
Author: Ilana MushinPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902720571X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
The Languages of Australia
Author: R. M. W. DixonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521223294
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
A study of the more than two hundred different Aboriginal languages of Australia. Professor Dixon deals first with the general character of these languages, and their use and role in Australia today. He stresses that they are in no sense 'primitive' languages, but have a rich and complex grammar with the many subtle and distinctive features. He goes on to demonstrate this in the first-ever study of their genetic relationships, probable origins and historical development, and their grammatical and phonological behaviour. This is in many ways a pioneering work, and a fundamental one. The Press has already published two major scholarly studies by Professor Dixon of individual Australian languages, Dyirbal and Yidin. He offers here the synthesis that they pointed towards, provisional still in many of its details, but sufficiently convincing in outline to stimulate the next stage of professional research, to provide the general linguist with the kind of survey to the interested Australian something of the extraordinary linguistic heritage of the continent, now and for some time past seriously at risk.
Handbook of Australian Languages: A new approach to Australian linguistics.- pt. 2. Some linguistic types in Australia.-
Author: Arthur CapellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Linguistics in Oceania
Author: J. D. BowenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111418820
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Linguistics in Oceania".
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.