The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

Herausgeber: Bowern, Claire

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a wide-ranging reference work covering the more than 550 Indigenous languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology and classification; linguistic structures; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers sketches of a selection of languages, sub-groups, and families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 1184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 244mm x 71mm
• Gewicht: 2880g
• ISBN-13: 9780198824978
• ISBN-10: 0198824971
• Artikelnr.: 66227314

Autorenporträt

Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics, Yale University

Inhaltsangabe

* Detailed contents
* Series preface
* Abbreviations and conventions
* The contributors
* Language maps
* Australian language families and linguistic classifications
* Foreword
* 1: Claire Bowern: Introduction
* Part I: Background
* 2: Clara Stockigt: A history of the early description of Australian
languages
* 3: Nicholas Thieberger: Documentation of Australian languages
* 4: Rachel Nordlinger: Australian languages and syntactic theory
* 5: Luisa Miceli and Claire Bowern: Australian languages and
interdisciplinary approaches to the past
* 6: Clara Stockigt: Nineteenth-century classifications of Australian
languages
* 7: Claire Bowern: How many languages are and were spoken in
Australia?
* 8: John Giacon and Harold Koch: Philological methods for Australian
languages
* Part II: Structures
* A: Phonetics and phonology
* 9: Marija Tabain: Articulatory and acoustic phonetics
* 10: Erich R. Round: Segment inventories
* 11: Erich R. Round: Phonotactics
* 12: Erich R. Round: Morphophonology: Lenition and assimilation
* 13: Erich R. Round: Nasal cluster dissimilation
* 14: Kathleen Jepson and Thomas Ennever: Lexical stress
* 15: Janet Fletcher: Intonation
* 16: Barry Alpher: Sound change
* B: Morphosyntax
* 17: Oliver Shoulson: Word classes
* 18: Dana Louagie: The noun phrase
* 19: Amalia Skilton: Noun classes
* 20: Vivien Dunn and Felicity Meakins: Ergativity
* 21: Jane Simpson: Semantic case
* 22: Maïa Ponsonnet: Possession
* 23: Dana Louagie: Demonstratives
* 24: Alice Gaby and Oliver Shoulson: Pronouns
* 25: Juhyae Kim: Adjectives and adverbs
* 26: David Osgarby and Claire Bowern: Complex predication and
serialization
* 27: Harold Koch: Conjugation classes
* 28: Parker Brody: Agreement morphology
* 29: Erich R. Round and Xavier Bach: Suppletion
* 30: Stef Spronck: Valency change and causation
* 31: Alice Gaby: Reflexives and reciprocals
* 32: James Bednall: Tense and aspect
* 33: James Bednall: Modality and mood
* 34: Josh Phillips: Negation
* 35: Magda Andrews-Hoke and Parker Brody: Word order
* 36: Juhyae Kim and Claire Bowern: Questions
* 37: Marie-Elaine van Egmond: Subordination
* 38: Rachel Hendery: Relative clauses
* 39: Jessica Denniss: Antipassives
* 40: Barry Alpher and Claire Bowern: Morphological change
* C: Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
* 41: Margit Bowler and Ivan Kapitonov: Quantification
* 42: Dorothea Hoffmann: Direction and location
* 43: Patrick McConvell: Kinship, marriage, and skins
* 44: Katherine Rosenberg, Jane Simpson, and Claire Bowern: Toponyms
* 45: Joe Blythe and Ilana Mushin: Discourse and social interaction
* 46: Francesca Merlan: Narrative
* 47: Maïa Ponsonnet: Interjections
* 48: Michael Walsh: Insults and compliments
* 49: Katherine Rosenberg and Claire Bowern: Language names
* Part III: Sociolinguistics and language variation
* 50: Jennifer Green, Inge Kral, and Sally Treloyn: The verbal arts in
Indigenous Australia
* 51: John Mansfield: Sociolinguistic variation
* 52: Jennifer Green: Australian Indigenous sign languages
* 53: John Bradley and Alice Gaby: Gender-based dialects
* 54: Jill Vaughan: Multilingualism
* 55: Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway: Code-switching
* 56: Denise Angelo: Language contact
* 57: Greg Dickson: Kriol
* 58: Carmel O'Shannessy: Young people's varieties
* 59: Michael Walsh: Restricted respect registers and auxiliary
languages
* 60: Lucinda Davidson, Barbara Kelly, Gillian Wigglesworth, and Rachel
Nordlinger: Language input and child-directed speech
* Part IV: Language in the Community
* 61: Rob Amery: Language policy, planning, and standardization
* 62: Gillian Wigglesworth and Samantha Disbray: Indigenous children's
language practices in Australia
* 63: Catherine Bow: Technology for Australian languages
* 64: Maryanne Gale: Language revival
* 65: Rob Amery and Maryanne Gale: Language, land, identity, and
well-being
* Part V: Structural sketches of languages, subgroups, and families
* 66: Denise Angelo: Contact language case studies
* 67: Nicholas Evans and Alexandra Marley: The Gunwinyguan languages
* 68: Marie-Elaine van Egmond: Anindilyakwa
* 69: Stef Spronck: Languages of the Kimberley region
* 70: Margaret Carew and David Felipe Guerrero Beltran: The Maningrida
languages
* 71: K. Eira: Living languages of Victoria
* 72: Jean-Christophe Verstraete: Lamalamic (Paman)
* 73: Margaret Sharpe: The Bandialangic languages and dialects
* 74: Denise Smith-Ali, Sue Hanson, George Hayden, Claire Bowern,
Akshay Aitha, Lydia Ding, and Sarah Mihuc: Noongar
* 75: Sarah Babinski, Luis-Miguel Rojas-Berscia, and Claire Bowern: The
Wati (Western Desert) subgroup of Pama-Nyungan
* 76: Felicity Meakins, Thomas Ennever, David Osgarby, Mitchell Browne,
and Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway: Ngumpin-Yapa languages
* 77: Doug Marmion: Wajarri
* 78: Annie Reynolds and Theresa Sainty: The revitalization of the
sleeping Tasmanian Aboriginal languages: palawa kani
* References
* Index