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Author: Kathleen Glasgow
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 936
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated Burarra-Gun-nartpa dictionary with sentence examples and synonyms; English finder list; list of morpho -phonemic changes, description of word classes.
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 928
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated Burarra-Gun-nartpa dictionary with sentence examples and synonyms; English finder list; list of morpho -phonemic changes, description of word classes.
Author: Sambulo Ndlovu
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-08-07
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 3110759292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics. It addresses names and cultures from 16 countries and five continents, thus offering readers an opportunity to comprehend and compare names and naming practices across cultures. The chapters presented in this book explore the cultural significance of personal names, naming ceremonies, conventions and practices. They illustrate how these names and practices perform certain culture-specific functions, such as religion, identity and social activity. Some chapters address the socio-political significance of personal names and their expression of self and otherness. The book also links the linguistic structure of personal names to culture by looking at their morphology, syntax and semantics. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 demonstrates how personal names perform human culture, Section 2 focuses on how personal names index socio-political transitioning, Section 3 demonstrates religious values in personal names and naming, and Section 4 links linguistic structure and analysis of personal names to culture and heritage.
Author: John Newman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9027229988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world's languages. The highly multifaceted nature of 'eat' and 'drink' events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive constructions involving 'eat' and 'drink' in some languages. The two verbs are also sources for a large number of figurative uses across languages with meanings such as 'destroy', and 'savour', as well as participating in a great variety of idioms which can be quite opaque semantically. Grammaticalized extensions of these predicates also occur, such as the quantificational use of Hausa shaa 'drink' meaning (roughly) 'do X frequently, regularly'. Specialists discuss details of the use of these verbs in a variety of languages and language families: Australian languages, Papuan languages, Athapaskan languages, Japanese, Korean, Hausa, Amharic, Hindi-Urdu, and Marathi.
Author: C. P. Biggam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0521899923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 0199571074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language, and a lasting monument to innovative scholarship.
Author: Wendy Anderson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 902726919X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science. The chapters have been developed from papers and posters presented at the Progress in Colour Studies (PICS12) conference held at the University of Glasgow. Papers from the earlier PICS04 and PICS08 conferences were published by John Benjamins as Progress in Colour Studies, 2 volumes, 2006 and New Directions in Colour Studies, 2011, respectively. The opening chapter of this new volume stems from the conference keynote talk on prehistoric colour semantics by Carole P. Biggam. The remaining chapters are grouped into three sections: colour and linguistics; colour categorization, naming and preference; and colour and the world. Each section is preceded by a short preface drawing together the themes of the chapters within it. There are thirty-one colour illustrations.
Author: Dana Louagie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-11-18
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1501512935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Tom Güldemann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-02-27
Total Pages: 747
ISBN-13: 1107003687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.
Author: Peter Sutton
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0522856365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Sutton is a fearless and authoritative voice in Aboriginal politics. In this groundbreaking book, he asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? The picture Sutton presents is tragic. He marshals shocking evidence against the failures of the past, and argues provocatively that three decades of liberal consensus on Aboriginal issues has collapsed. Sutton is a leading Australian anthropologist who has lived and worked closely with Aboriginal communities. He combines clear-eyed, original observation with deep emotional engagement. The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.
