Patrick Mcconvell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Mcconvell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcconvell |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONVELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How Crow-Omaha Skewing Spreads
Crow-Omaha kinship systems skew kin terms intergenerationally. Although occurring worldwide, they are relatively infrequent and often exist in historically unrelated clusters: “similar inventions in areas widely apart” (per Boas). Most analyses have been formalist, evolutionist, or sociological. Here, adding some historical linguistics and focusing on the core kin-term equations via the ethnographic and ethnohistoric record of Indigenous Australi…
The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist. This volume, using the lens of language, offers us a window into the inner workings of twenty-first-century hunter-gatherer societies - how they survive and how they interface with societies tha…
Skin, Kin and Clan: The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia
Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of ?universal kinship? whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of dat…
The Birds and the Bees: The Origins of Sections in Queensland
The ‘section’ type of social categorisation is only found in Indigenous \nAustralia, with one exception in South America that will be discussed \nbriefly in this chapter. The sections are a system of four named divisions \nin which members of each section have a particular kinship relation to \neach other section. Corresponding pairs of sections have a relationship \nof marriage alliance with each other. In the older literature, sections are \nca…
Enhancing the Kinship Anthropology of Scheffler with Diachronic Linguistics and Centricity
‘Demand sharing’ and more subtle language choice etiquettes for resource sharing in Northern Australia
Alfred Howitt, a leading nineteenth-century original anthropologist of Australian Aboriginal people, contributed a detailed account of the sharing of cuts of game according to kinship categories among the Kurnai of Victoria. Other accounts followed in the late twentieth century, some attending to the verbal negotiation involved. A characterisation of these events became dominant: demand sharing in which a person demands a share with a justificati…
What Is 'Kariera'? Detecting Systems and Overlap in Australian Kinship Using theAustKinDatabase
Radcliffe-Brown introduced the concept of a 'Kariera' type of kinship system in proposing his highly influential typology of Australian social organization, building on his earlier reports of fieldwork in the Pilbara of northern Western Australia, in which the Kariera (Kariyarra) people were taken to represent a widespread type. Radcliffe-Brown's and other typologies of Australian kinship have generally disregarded the universalist categorization…
Kinship loanwords in Indigenous Australia, before and after colonisation
This paper begins with a discussion of medieval kinship loanwords into English from French. As well as illustrating how these terms (uncle, aunt, cousin, nephew etc.) are drawn from outside the lineal core of the family, they also show how the takeover from earlier Anglo-Saxon terms was not immediate but went through a phase of plurality or overlay of some centuries in which there was kin-switching between the old and new systems, parallel to cod…
Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howittâ s Kamilaroi and Kurnai
Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern A
Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai
Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia
Wanderwörter are a problematic set of words in historical linguistics. They usually make up a small proportion of the total vocabulary of individual languages, and only a minority of loanwords. They are, however, found frequently in languages from across the world. There is, to our knowledge, no general synthesis of Wanderwörter patterns, causes of exceptionally high borrowing rates for particular lexical items, or estimates of their frequency ac…
Loan and Inheritance Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Ethnobiological Systems
We compare the etymologies of ethnobiological nomenclature in 130 hunter-gatherer and agriculturist languages in Australia, North America, and Amazonia. Previous work has identified correlations between systems of ethnobiological terminology and dominant means of community subsistence, relating stability of terminology to the “salience” of the items. However, the relevance of subsistence patterns to the development of ethnobiological nomenclature…
Results and Prospects in the Study of Semantic Change: A Review of From Polysemy to Semantic Change (2008)
The topic of this review article is a volume addressing the relationship between polysemy and semantic change, a relationship which has been important in discussions of semantic theory and method particularly in recent years, and which has the potential to unite synchronic and diachronic approaches. The first part of this article consists of thorough reviews of the fourteen chapters in the volume, entitled From Polysemy to Semantic Change , edite…
Australia: Linguistic history
The Australian continent has been occupied by humans since 50 kya, but the Holocene seems to have been a dynamic period in terms of human movement, especially within the extensive Pama‐Nyungan language family. As in chapters 43 and 44, the record here is one of hunter‐gatherer migration
Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction
The Descent of Morgan in Australia: Kinship Representation from the Australian Colonies
Morgan had two extraordinary disciples in Lorimer Fison and Alfred Howitt in Australia. They were inspired by Morgan's kinship schedule and were profoundly engaged in the method and theory of the collection of kinship data and its interpretation. Fison began using the schedule in Fiji in 1869. Soon after his first contact with Howitt, in 1873, they changed the method of collection of kinship terminologies. This paper traces the shift from tabulat…
Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages
Tracking the dynamics of kinship and social category terms with AustKin II
Autosomal dominant polycystic liver disease (PCLD) is caused by mutations of either PRKCSH or Sec63, two proteins associated with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Both proteins are involved in carbohydrate processing, folding and translocation of newly synthesized glycoproteins. It is postulated that defective quality control of proteins initiates endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD), which disrupts hepatic homeostasis in patients w…
Born is nothing’: Roots, family trees and other attachments to land in the Victoria River District and the Kimberleys
Work is nothing. Born is nothing. That grandfather is roots just like grass -split up and go all over the place. If they claim the wrong place, they can kill them. N. Waterloo, 1992
Time perspective in Aboriginal Australian culture: Two approaches to the origin of subsections
The contribution of linguistics in Australian Aboriginal culture, particularly in terms of the origin and diffusion of a type of social classification called subsections, is discussed. It is asserted that von Brandenstein's theory on the origin of subsections is incorrect while Sapir's theory based on the chronological order of events is authentic
The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages
Australian linguistic prehistory has lagged behind equivalent endeavours on other continents in part because of the dearth of grammars and dictionaries until recent times, when there has been a great deal of high quality work done. Australianist linguists have tended not to use the standard comparative method. In some cases, this was because it was prematurely judged inapplicable in Australia, due to supposed very high levels of diffusion, which …
Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Role of Diffusion in the History of Indigenous Languages Pidgin and Creoles Contemporary Contact Effects, Language Shift, and Mixed Languages Conclusions References
The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia
Grand-daddy morphs: The importance of suffixes in reconstructing Pama-Nyungan kinship
Backtracking to Babel: The chronology of Pama‐Nyungan expansion in Australia
In the Holocene the Pama‐Nyungan language family expanded to cover most of Australia, replacing languages previously spoken in many regions. Most phases of this expansion in the west of the continent have occurred in the last 3000 years as a result of migration, and can be correlated with archaeological evidence of new activity. Intermeshed with the migration of peoples and language expansion are cultural diffusion events which can be assigned a …
Gurindji Kriol: A Mixed Language Emerges from Code-switching
1. IntroductionBakker (2003: 129) claims that ‘mixed languages’ do not arise from code-switching.The language spoken most frequently by Gurindji people between the ages of 3 andabout 45, termed ‘Gurindji Kriol’ here, is a counter-example to this generalization.This language is made up of elements of Kriol, an English based creole spoken acrossthe middle of the Northern Territory of Australia; and Gurindji, the traditionallanguage of a group in th…
Mixed Languages as Outcomes of Code-Switching: Recent Examples from Australia and Their Implications
There has been much debate about whether mixed languages arise from code-switching. This paper presents one clear example of this kind of genesis, Gurindji Kriol, and other probable examples, from recent language contact in Australia between traditional Australian languages and English-based pidgins/creoles. In particular the paper focuses on what has been called the Verbal-Nominal split in the genesis of these languages, which is parallel to oth…
How Lardil became accusative
The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages
Australian linguistic prehistory has lagged behind equivalent endeavours on other continents in part because of the dearth of grammars and dictionaries until recent times, when there has been a great deal of high quality work done. Australianist linguists have tended not to use the standard comparative method. In some cases, this was because it was prematurely judged inapplicable in Australia, due to supposed very high levels of diffusion, which …
On the Omaha trail in Australia: Tracking skewing from east to west
2002). On the Omaha trail in Australia: Tracking skewing from east to west. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 159-175
Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia
Gurindji children′s language and language maintenance
The Descent of Morgan in Australia: Kinship Representation from the Australian Colonies
Morgan had two extraordinary disciples in Lorimer Fison and Alfred Howitt in Australia. They were inspired by Morgan's kinship schedule and were profoundly engaged in the method and theory of the collection of kinship data and its interpretation. Fison began using the schedule in Fiji in 1869. Soon after his first contact with Howitt, in 1873, they changed the method of collection of kinship terminologies. This paper traces the shift from tabulat…
Time perspective in Aboriginal Australian culture: Two approaches to the origin of subsections
The contribution of linguistics in Australian Aboriginal culture, particularly in terms of the origin and diffusion of a type of social classification called subsections, is discussed. It is asserted that von Brandenstein's theory on the origin of subsections is incorrect while Sapir's theory based on the chronological order of events is authentic
What Is 'Kariera'? Detecting Systems and Overlap in Australian Kinship Using theAustKinDatabase
Radcliffe-Brown introduced the concept of a 'Kariera' type of kinship system in proposing his highly influential typology of Australian social organization, building on his earlier reports of fieldwork in the Pilbara of northern Western Australia, in which the Kariera (Kariyarra) people were taken to represent a widespread type. Radcliffe-Brown's and other typologies of Australian kinship have generally disregarded the universalist categorization…
Introduction: Language Shift, Code-mixing and Variation
Major languages are accelerating their expansion throughout the world, in some cases threatening the existence of small languages, as speakers shift towards the world languages. In this issue of th
How Crow-Omaha Skewing Spreads
Crow-Omaha kinship systems skew kin terms intergenerationally. Although occurring worldwide, they are relatively infrequent and often exist in historically unrelated clusters: “similar inventions in areas widely apart” (per Boas). Most analyses have been formalist, evolutionist, or sociological. Here, adding some historical linguistics and focusing on the core kin-term equations via the ethnographic and ethnohistoric record of Indigenous Australi…
Australia: Linguistic history
The Australian continent has been occupied by humans since 50 kya, but the Holocene seems to have been a dynamic period in terms of human movement, especially within the extensive Pama‐Nyungan language family. As in chapters 43 and 44, the record here is one of hunter‐gatherer migration
Aboriginal language programmes and language maintenance in the Kimberley
Different types of language programmes for indigenous Australian languages should be developed to suit different language situations. Programmes are here divided into three types: Bilingual Education, Language Maintenance and Language Renewal. The Kija language of Warrmarn community, Western Australia is cited as an example of a situation requiring a Language Maintenance programme. In Language Maintenance programmes thought needs to be given to t…
How Lardil became accusative
The Origin of Subsections in Northern Australia
Aboriginal language programmes and language maintenance in the Kimberley
Different types of language programmes for indigenous Australian languages should be developed to suit different language situations. Programmes are here divided into three types: Bilingual Education, Language Maintenance and Language Renewal. The Kija language of Warrmarn community, Western Australia is cited as an example of a situation requiring a Language Maintenance programme. In Language Maintenance programmes thought needs to be given to t…
To be or double be? Current changes in the English copula
(1988). To be or double be? Current changes in the English copula. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 287-305
Understanding language shift: A step towards language maintenance
If nothing is done about it, almost all Aboriginal languages will be dead by the year 2000. Even the two most likely survivors, the Yolngu languages of north-east Arnhem Land and the Western Desert language may not last long beyond that date. Most of us who have worked for some time in the field of Aboriginal languages would agree with statements like this. However, if we were asked to show why we thought a particular language was going to die, w…
Gurindji children′s language and language maintenance
Backtracking to Babel: The chronology of Pama‐Nyungan expansion in Australia
In the Holocene the Pama‐Nyungan language family expanded to cover most of Australia, replacing languages previously spoken in many regions. Most phases of this expansion in the west of the continent have occurred in the last 3000 years as a result of migration, and can be correlated with archaeological evidence of new activity. Intermeshed with the migration of peoples and language expansion are cultural diffusion events which can be assigned a …
People, Countries and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of Classification among the Lardil of Momington Island
People, Countries and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of Classification among the Lardil of Momington Island. David McKnight. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 270 pp
On the Omaha trail in Australia: Tracking skewing from east to west
2002). On the Omaha trail in Australia: Tracking skewing from east to west. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 159-175
Forty Years on: Ken Hale and Australian Languages
The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup
Introduction: Language Shift, Code-mixing and Variation
Major languages are accelerating their expansion throughout the world, in some cases threatening the existence of small languages, as speakers shift towards the world languages. In this issue of th
Gurindji Kriol: A Mixed Language Emerges from Code-switching
1. IntroductionBakker (2003: 129) claims that ‘mixed languages’ do not arise from code-switching.The language spoken most frequently by Gurindji people between the ages of 3 andabout 45, termed ‘Gurindji Kriol’ here, is a counter-example to this generalization.This language is made up of elements of Kriol, an English based creole spoken acrossthe middle of the Northern Territory of Australia; and Gurindji, the traditionallanguage of a group in th…
Grammaticalization of Demonstratives as Subordinate Complementizers in Ngumpin-Yapa* An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Blackwood Australianist workshop and at the ALS conference in…
Demonstratives have grammaticalized as subordinate, including relative, complementizers in a number of language groupings around the world, including Germanic. This paper provides evidence for this type of grammaticalization in the ‘adjoined relative clause’ in Australian Aboriginal languages, in particular in one Pama-Nyungan subgroup, Ngumpin-Yapa, where there has been a series of parallel grammaticalizations of various demonstratives in differ…
Grand-daddy morphs: The importance of suffixes in reconstructing Pama-Nyungan kinship
Mixed Languages as Outcomes of Code-Switching: Recent Examples from Australia and Their Implications
There has been much debate about whether mixed languages arise from code-switching. This paper presents one clear example of this kind of genesis, Gurindji Kriol, and other probable examples, from recent language contact in Australia between traditional Australian languages and English-based pidgins/creoles. In particular the paper focuses on what has been called the Verbal-Nominal split in the genesis of these languages, which is parallel to oth…
Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia
Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Role of Diffusion in the History of Indigenous Languages Pidgin and Creoles Contemporary Contact Effects, Language Shift, and Mixed Languages Conclusions References
The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
Born is nothing’: Roots, family trees and other attachments to land in the Victoria River District and the Kimberleys
Work is nothing. Born is nothing. That grandfather is roots just like grass -split up and go all over the place. If they claim the wrong place, they can kill them. N. Waterloo, 1992
Time perspective in Aboriginal Australian culture: Two approaches to the origin of subsections
The contribution of linguistics in Australian Aboriginal culture, particularly in terms of the origin and diffusion of a type of social classification called subsections, is discussed. It is asserted that von Brandenstein's theory on the origin of subsections is incorrect while Sapir's theory based on the chronological order of events is authentic
The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages
Australian linguistic prehistory has lagged behind equivalent endeavours on other continents in part because of the dearth of grammars and dictionaries until recent times, when there has been a great deal of high quality work done. Australianist linguists have tended not to use the standard comparative method. In some cases, this was because it was prematurely judged inapplicable in Australia, due to supposed very high levels of diffusion, which …
Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages
Tracking the dynamics of kinship and social category terms with AustKin II
Autosomal dominant polycystic liver disease (PCLD) is caused by mutations of either PRKCSH or Sec63, two proteins associated with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Both proteins are involved in carbohydrate processing, folding and translocation of newly synthesized glycoproteins. It is postulated that defective quality control of proteins initiates endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD), which disrupts hepatic homeostasis in patients w…
Results and Prospects in the Study of Semantic Change: A Review of From Polysemy to Semantic Change (2008)
The topic of this review article is a volume addressing the relationship between polysemy and semantic change, a relationship which has been important in discussions of semantic theory and method particularly in recent years, and which has the potential to unite synchronic and diachronic approaches. The first part of this article consists of thorough reviews of the fourteen chapters in the volume, entitled From Polysemy to Semantic Change , edite…
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