The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

NOTE EDITORE

The 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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction2 - A history of the early description of Australian languages3 - Documentation of Australian languages4 - Australian languages and syntactic theory5 - Australian languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the past6 - Nineteenth-century classifications of Australian languages7 - How many languages are and were spoken in Australia?8 - Philological methods for Australian languages9 - Articulatory and acoustic phonetics10 - Segment inventories11 - Phonotactics12 - Morphophonology: Lenition and assimilation13 - Nasal cluster dissimilation14 - Lexical stress15 - Intonation16 - Sound change17 - Word classes18 - The noun phrase19 - Noun classes20 - Ergativity21 - Semantic case22 - Possession23 - Demonstratives24 - Pronouns25 - Adjectives and adverbs26 - Complex predication and serialization27 - Conjugation classes28 - Agreement morphology29 - Suppletion30 - Valency change and causation31 - Reflexives and reciprocals32 - Tense and aspect33 - Modality and mood34 - Negation35 - Word order36 - Questions37 - Subordination38 - Relative clauses39 - Antipassives40 - Morphological change41 - Quantification42 - Direction and location43 - Kinship, marriage, and skins44 - Toponyms45 - Discourse and social interaction46 - Narrative47 - Interjections48 - Insults and compliments49 - Language names50 - The verbal arts in Indigenous Australia51 - Sociolinguistic variation52 - Australian Indigenous sign languages53 - Gender-based dialects54 - Multilingualism55 - Code-switching56 - Language contact57 - Kriol58 - Young people's varieties59 - Restricted respect registers and auxiliary languages60 - Language input and child-directed speech61 - Language policy, planning, and standardization62 - Indigenous children's language practices in Australia63 - Technology for Australian languages64 - Language revival65 - Language, land, identity, and well-being66 - Contact language case studies67 - The Gunwinyguan languages68 - Anindilyakwa69 - Languages of the Kimberley region70 - The Maningrida languages71 - Living languages of Victoria72 - Lamalamic (Paman)73 - The Bandialangic languages and dialects74 - Noongar75 - The Wati (Western Desert) subgroup of Pama-Nyungan76 - Ngumpin-Yapa languages77 - Wajarri78 - The revitalization of the sleeping Tasmanian Aboriginal languages: palawa kani

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198824978
• Collana: Oxford Guides to the World's Languages
• Dimensioni: 284 x 61.0 x 226 mm Ø 2862 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 1184