Handbook Of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South Of The Kimberley Region
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Author | : Nick Thieberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : |
Gives location, variant spelling, classification, linguistic situation, research and bibliographic information for all languages in regions south of Kimberleys; notes on Aboriginal English and Kriol; extensive annotated bibliography; indexes to variant language spellings, and to linguists.
Author | : Nick Thieberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : |
Gives location, variant spelling, classification, linguistic situation, research and bibliographic information for all languages in regions south of Kimberleys; notes on Aboriginal English and Kriol; extensive annotated bibliography; indexes to variant language spellings, and to linguists.
Author | : William B. McGregor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134396023 |
The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to children, most of whom speak Kriol (a new language that arose about half a century ago from an earlier Pidgin English) or Aboriginal English (a dialect of English) as their mother tongue and usual language of communication. This book describes the Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in this region.
Author | : Stephen A. Wurm |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1903 |
Release | : 2011-02-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110819724 |
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author | : Harold Koch |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110279770 |
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 | : Katie Glaskin |
Publisher | : Apollo Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781742589442 |
Law's metaphysics -- When whiteman came in -- Mission days -- A land and sea claim -- The ethnographic archive -- In the court -- Legal submissions and crosscurrents -- How judgments are made -- Society and sea on appeal -- Recognitions's paradox
Author | : Robert M. W. Dixon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
The Handbook volumes offer the only detailed and accurate records of many Australian languages that are extinct or on the verge of extinction. This volume provides a new introduction that discusses some of the main characteristics of Australian languages. Each grammatical sketch includes an illustrative text--demonstrating the use of the language--and a basic vocabulary listing. Also, each example is accompanied by a morpheme-by-morpheme glossary, providing a definitive account of the languages of the Aborigines of Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide.
Author | : Juliette Blevins |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2001-07-31 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780824823757 |
This book presents the first detailed sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. This language was once spoken along the lower Murchison River, from Kalbarri inland, and south to present-day Northampton and Geraldton, but has remained largely unknown until recent years. Nhanda is based on the author's fieldwork in Western Australia from 1993 to 1998 with one of the last speakers of the language, and also incorporates notes of early explorers and linguists who passed through the area. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a comprehensive study of Nhanda sound patterns, major sections on nominal and verbal morphology, and descriptions of simple sentences and constituent order. Each chapter is rich in data and provides comparative evidence with important implications for historical relationships between the languages of Australia. The volume also includes Nhanda-English and English-Nhanda alphabetical vocabularies and an alphabetical list of Nhanda affixes.
Author | : A. Forsyth |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2009-04-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230236944 |
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
Author | : Claire Bowern |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : 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.