A Word-list of the Tasmanian Languages
Author: Norman James Brian Plomley
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13:
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A Word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages
Author: Norman James Brian Plomley
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780724601981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
Author: Claire Bowern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-06-06
Total Pages: 1179
ISBN-13: 0192558498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Words for Country
Author: Tim Bonyhady
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780868406282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterise Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and treat our environment? How do stories take root in particular places? How do we find the right words for those parts of the country that matter to us? "Words for Country" answers these questions while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths have brought together a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Their terrain is environmental and cultural, political and poetic. Words for Country reveals not just how language grows out of the landscape but how words and stories shape the places in which we live.
Dictionnaires
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
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Total Pages: 1058
ISBN-13: 9783110124217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Languages of Australia
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-20
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 1108017851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.
Language
Author: George Melville Bolling
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Handbook of Australian Languages
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9027220042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on four languages which are on the point of extinction, and an assessment of what linguistic impressions can be inferred from the scant material that is available on the extinct languages of Tasmania.
Handbook of Australian Languages
Author: R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1981-12-31
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9027273545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on four languages which are on the point of extinction, and an assessment of what linguistic impressions can be inferred from the scant material that is available on the extinct languages of Tasmania.
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World
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Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2010-04-06
Total Pages: 1320
ISBN-13: 0080877753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world's languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. - Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and dispute - Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose - Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage - Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia
