Jeff Good
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 828246 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeff Good |
| NOMBRES | Jeff |
| APELLIDO | Good |
| FIRMA | GOOD J |
| AFILIACIONES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8679-4654 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
“What Is Your Primary Language?”
In small-scale multilingual societies, an individual uses a large number of languages and usually identifies one of them as the primary language. Although empirically observable, primary language has been significantly underexplored, particularly the spatiality of its identification. It is not clear whether and how place is related to why one language might be seen as being more significant than other languages. This study predicts the primary la…
Jenneke van der Wal and Larry M. Hyman
Adapting Methods of Language Documentation To Multilingual Settings
Commonly recommended methods for documenting endangered languages are built around the assumption that a given documentary project will focus on a single language rather than a multilingual ecology. This hinders the potential usability of documentary materials for the study of language contact. Research in domains such as ethnography and sociolinguistics has developed conceptual and analytical tools for understanding patterns of multilingual usag…
Towards a coherent methodology for the documentation of small-scale multilingualism
Purpose: To contribute to the establishment of a novel approach to language documentation that includes bilingual and multilingual speech data. This approach would open this domain of study to work by specialists of bilingualism and multilingualism. Approach: Within language documentation, the approach adopted in this paper exemplifies the “contemporary communicative ecology” mode of documentation. This radically differs from the “ancestral-code”…
Language conflict and language rights
Reviewed by: Language conflict and language rights: Ethnolinguistic perspectives on human conflict by William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky Jeff Good Language conflict and language rights: Ethnolinguistic perspectives on human conflict. By William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xxiv, 425. ISBN 9781107606586. $34.99. Language can play an important role in contributing to sociopolitical tension. Mo…
The vitality and diversity of multilingual repertoires
In this commentary, we argue that examining the topic of language endangerment and loss requires close attention to culturally specific local factors that influence patterns of language choice and that shifting the emphasis of investigation from language endangerment to language vitality can yield significant research insights. Drawing largely on lessons from the investigation of patterns of multilingualism in rural Africa, we also suggest that e…
Quantifying Language Dynamics
Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons of the world’s languages, bringing large datasets and sophisticated statistical techniques to bear on fundame…
Preliminary material
Typologizing grammatical complexities
An important theme in work attempting to situate creoles with respect to non-creoles typologically is the extent to which it can be said that creole grammars are relatively simple from a cross-linguistic perspective. Work arguing for and against this position has generally focused on an examination of the synchronic grammars of creoles in order to show that they are either simple or complex in one way or another. By contrast, there has not been a…
How to become a "Kwa" noun
The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon
La région du Lower Fungom, au nord-ouest du Cameroun, est l’une des zones présentant la plus grande diversité linguistique des Grassfields camerounais. Sept langues ou petits groupes de langues sont parlés dans ses treize villages reconnus, et quatre d’entre eux se limitent à un seul village. Alors que ces langues peuvent être toutes classées comme bantoïdes, cinq d’entre elles n’ont aucun parler fortement apparenté en dehors de la région, et ne …
The Typology of Templates
The notion of a template has been used in a number of linguistic domains to refer to grammatical patterns where the form of some linguistic constituent appears to be well conceptualized as consisting of a fixed linear structure, whether in terms of the arrangement of its subconstituents or its overall length. Most work on templates has restricted the topic of investigation to a single grammatical domain, e.g., morphophonology, rather than looking…
Ethical issues in legacy language resources
A twice-mixed creole
Saramaccan, a maroon creole of Suriname, shows evidence of having a split lexicon where the majority of its words are marked for pitch accent but an important minority are marked for tone. The basic origins of this split would appear to be clear: pitch-accented words represent transfer of a European-like accent system, while tonal words represent transfer of an African-like tone system. If this is the right account, its apparent simplicity raises…
Practical language development
The purpose of this paper is to explore academic linguistics' tacit reliance on a Christian missionary organization, SIL International, to develop technological infrastructure and offer service in local linguistic communities—areas that have generally been ignored by academic linguistics because they have been seen as falling outside its domain of professional responsibility. We refer to these kinds of activities as PRACTICAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT…
Contribution de la linguistique à l’histoire des peuples du Gabon
Preview this article: Contribution de la linguistique à l’histoire des peuples du Gabon: La méthode comparative et son application au bantu. By Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/dia.24.1.13goo-1.gif
Reconstructing morpheme order in Bantu
The morphological ordering relationships among a set of valence-changing suffixes found throughout the Bantu family have been of theoretical interest in a number of synchronic studies of the daughter languages. However, few attempts have yet been made to reconstruct the principles governing their ordering in the parent language. Based on a survey of over thirty Bantu languages, this paper proposes a reconstruction wherein the order of suffixes ma…
Tone and accent in Saramaccan
Clause combining in Chechen
Chechen exhibits three major strategies for the combination of clauses: coordination, chaining, and subordination. The major formal characteristics of these three traditional categories of clause linking are discussed with reference to their basic syntax and semantics as well as to more particular syntactic characteristics, including constituent order and behaviour with respect to negation and wh -questions. In addition, these clause combining st…
Affix-Placement Variation in Turkish
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Caucasian, Dravidian, and Turkic Linguistics (2000)
Tone and accent in Saramaccan
How to become a "Kwa" noun
Practical language development
The purpose of this paper is to explore academic linguistics' tacit reliance on a Christian missionary organization, SIL International, to develop technological infrastructure and offer service in local linguistic communities—areas that have generally been ignored by academic linguistics because they have been seen as falling outside its domain of professional responsibility. We refer to these kinds of activities as PRACTICAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT…
The Typology of Templates
The notion of a template has been used in a number of linguistic domains to refer to grammatical patterns where the form of some linguistic constituent appears to be well conceptualized as consisting of a fixed linear structure, whether in terms of the arrangement of its subconstituents or its overall length. Most work on templates has restricted the topic of investigation to a single grammatical domain, e.g., morphophonology, rather than looking…
Ethical issues in legacy language resources
Affix-Placement Variation in Turkish
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Caucasian, Dravidian, and Turkic Linguistics (2000)
Clause combining in Chechen
Chechen exhibits three major strategies for the combination of clauses: coordination, chaining, and subordination. The major formal characteristics of these three traditional categories of clause linking are discussed with reference to their basic syntax and semantics as well as to more particular syntactic characteristics, including constituent order and behaviour with respect to negation and wh -questions. In addition, these clause combining st…
Tone and accent in Saramaccan
Reconstructing morpheme order in Bantu
The morphological ordering relationships among a set of valence-changing suffixes found throughout the Bantu family have been of theoretical interest in a number of synchronic studies of the daughter languages. However, few attempts have yet been made to reconstruct the principles governing their ordering in the parent language. Based on a survey of over thirty Bantu languages, this paper proposes a reconstruction wherein the order of suffixes ma…
Contribution de la linguistique à l’histoire des peuples du Gabon
Preview this article: Contribution de la linguistique à l’histoire des peuples du Gabon: La méthode comparative et son application au bantu. By Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/dia.24.1.13goo-1.gif
A twice-mixed creole
Saramaccan, a maroon creole of Suriname, shows evidence of having a split lexicon where the majority of its words are marked for pitch accent but an important minority are marked for tone. The basic origins of this split would appear to be clear: pitch-accented words represent transfer of a European-like accent system, while tonal words represent transfer of an African-like tone system. If this is the right account, its apparent simplicity raises…
Practical language development
The purpose of this paper is to explore academic linguistics' tacit reliance on a Christian missionary organization, SIL International, to develop technological infrastructure and offer service in local linguistic communities—areas that have generally been ignored by academic linguistics because they have been seen as falling outside its domain of professional responsibility. We refer to these kinds of activities as PRACTICAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT…
Ethical issues in legacy language resources
The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon
La région du Lower Fungom, au nord-ouest du Cameroun, est l’une des zones présentant la plus grande diversité linguistique des Grassfields camerounais. Sept langues ou petits groupes de langues sont parlés dans ses treize villages reconnus, et quatre d’entre eux se limitent à un seul village. Alors que ces langues peuvent être toutes classées comme bantoïdes, cinq d’entre elles n’ont aucun parler fortement apparenté en dehors de la région, et ne …
The Typology of Templates
The notion of a template has been used in a number of linguistic domains to refer to grammatical patterns where the form of some linguistic constituent appears to be well conceptualized as consisting of a fixed linear structure, whether in terms of the arrangement of its subconstituents or its overall length. Most work on templates has restricted the topic of investigation to a single grammatical domain, e.g., morphophonology, rather than looking…
Preliminary material
Typologizing grammatical complexities
An important theme in work attempting to situate creoles with respect to non-creoles typologically is the extent to which it can be said that creole grammars are relatively simple from a cross-linguistic perspective. Work arguing for and against this position has generally focused on an examination of the synchronic grammars of creoles in order to show that they are either simple or complex in one way or another. By contrast, there has not been a…
How to become a "Kwa" noun
Quantifying Language Dynamics
Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons of the world’s languages, bringing large datasets and sophisticated statistical techniques to bear on fundame…
The vitality and diversity of multilingual repertoires
In this commentary, we argue that examining the topic of language endangerment and loss requires close attention to culturally specific local factors that influence patterns of language choice and that shifting the emphasis of investigation from language endangerment to language vitality can yield significant research insights. Drawing largely on lessons from the investigation of patterns of multilingualism in rural Africa, we also suggest that e…
Language conflict and language rights
Reviewed by: Language conflict and language rights: Ethnolinguistic perspectives on human conflict by William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky Jeff Good Language conflict and language rights: Ethnolinguistic perspectives on human conflict. By William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xxiv, 425. ISBN 9781107606586. $34.99. Language can play an important role in contributing to sociopolitical tension. Mo…
Towards a coherent methodology for the documentation of small-scale multilingualism
Purpose: To contribute to the establishment of a novel approach to language documentation that includes bilingual and multilingual speech data. This approach would open this domain of study to work by specialists of bilingualism and multilingualism. Approach: Within language documentation, the approach adopted in this paper exemplifies the “contemporary communicative ecology” mode of documentation. This radically differs from the “ancestral-code”…
Jenneke van der Wal and Larry M. Hyman
Adapting Methods of Language Documentation To Multilingual Settings
Commonly recommended methods for documenting endangered languages are built around the assumption that a given documentary project will focus on a single language rather than a multilingual ecology. This hinders the potential usability of documentary materials for the study of language contact. Research in domains such as ethnography and sociolinguistics has developed conceptual and analytical tools for understanding patterns of multilingual usag…
“What Is Your Primary Language?”
In small-scale multilingual societies, an individual uses a large number of languages and usually identifies one of them as the primary language. Although empirically observable, primary language has been significantly underexplored, particularly the spatiality of its identification. It is not clear whether and how place is related to why one language might be seen as being more significant than other languages. This study predicts the primary la…
Linguistics (19 obras) · Philosophy (16 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · History (8 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Bantu languages (4 obras)