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| Author | : Claire Bowern |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781588115126 |
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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 |
| Total Pages | : 780 |
| Release | : 2002-11-14 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0521473780 |
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Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
| Author | : Harold Koch |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 523 |
| Release | : 2014-08-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110279770 |
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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 | : Claire Bowern |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1179 |
| Release | : 2023-03-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198824971 |
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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 | : Robert M. W. Dixon |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9027205124 |
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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.
| Author | : Ilana Mushin |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902720571X |
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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 | : R. M. W. Dixon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 586 |
| Release | : 1980-07-24 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780521223294 |
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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.
| Author | : William Ridley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1875 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : |
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Glossary of 10 languages in English and Aboriginal from eastern Australia.
| Author | : Gerhard Leitner |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9783110190793 |
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The book looks at Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and explores the changing habitat of languages from pre-colonial times to the present. The contributions treat the languages from a structural and functional linguistic perspective, ..
| Author | : William Ridley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 1875 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : |
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