Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects write by Gavan Breen. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the north of the Cooper, in the northeast corner of South Australia and a neighbouring strip of Queensland. The other volume is entitledInnamincka Words. Innamincka Talk is the more technical work of the two and is intended for specialists and for interested readers who are willing to put some time and effort into studying the language.Innamincka Words is for readers, especially descendants of the original people of the area, who are interested in the language, but not necessarily interested in its more technical aspects. It is also a necessary resource for users of Innamincka Talk. These volumes document all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist who was involved with other languages at the same time. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew to the linguist student.
Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories
Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories write by . This book was released on 2015-04-01. Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the north of the Cooper, in the northeast corner of South Australia and a neighbouring strip of Queensland. The other volume is entitled Innamincka Talk: a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects. Innamincka Words is for readers, especially descendants of the original people of the area, who are interested in the language. It is also a necessary resource for users of the more technical Innamincka Talk. These volumes document all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist who was involved with other languages at the same time. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew to the linguist student.
Noun Phrases in Australian Languages
Noun Phrases in Australian Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noun Phrases in Australian Languages write by Dana Louagie. This book was released on 2019-11-18. Noun Phrases in Australian Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, quantification, determination and constituency. The analysis is based on a representative sample of 100 languages. Among other points, the results call into question the classic idea that Australian languages tend to lack phrasal structures in the nominal domain, with over two thirds of the languages showing evidence for phrasehood. Moreover, it is argued that it may be more interesting to typologise languages on the basis of where and how they allow phrasal structure, rather than on the basis of a yes-no answer to the question of constituency. The analysis also shows that a determiner slot can be identified in about half of the languages, even though they generally lack 'classic' determiner features like obligatory use in particular contexts or a restriction to one determiner per NP. Special attention is given to elements, which can be used both inside and beyond determiner slots, demonstrating how part of speech and functional structure do not always align. The book is of interest to researchers documenting Australian languages, as well as to typologists and theorists.
Morphology and Language History
Morphology and Language History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morphology and Language History write by Claire Bowern. This book was released on 2008-06-12. Morphology and Language History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills
The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills write by Ian Clark. This book was released on 2013-07-22. The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to which this affected the outcome of the expedition. The book offers a reinterpretation of the literature surrounding Burke and Wills, using official correspondence, expedition journals and diaries, visual art, and archaeological and linguistic research – and then complements this with references to Aboriginal oral histories and social memory. It highlights the interaction of expedition members with Aboriginal people and their subsequent contribution to Aboriginal studies. The book also considers contemporary and multi-disciplinary critiques that the expedition members were, on the whole, deficient in bush craft, especially in light of the expedition’s failure to use Aboriginal guides in any systematic way. Generously illustrated with historical photographs and line drawings, The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is an important resource for Indigenous people, Burke and Wills history enthusiasts and the wider community. This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council project.
