Timothy Jowan Curnow
Biographic Data
| ID | 480715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Jowan Curnow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy Jowan |
| FAMILY NAME | Curnow |
| SIGNATURE | CURNOW T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7909-442X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Students' home languages and the struggle for space in the curriculum
Although the importance of using students' home languages in education has been recognised for many years, home languages that are not official languages often struggle to find space in school curricula. This paper examines the ways that language-in-education policies influence the space available for non-official languages in the curriculum. It begins with a brief overview of the historical context that shapes how languages are understood in edu…
Educational responses to multilingualism
We would also like to thank Miranda Roccisano for her generous and highly professional text-editing in the preparation of the papers for this volume.Anthony J. Liddicoat, Kathleen Heugh, Timothy Jowan Curnow and Angela ScarinoResearch Centre for Languages and Cultures, School of Communication International Studies and Languages University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Communication in Introductory Linguistics
Linguistics is the study of language, and for most non-linguists (including linguistics students), language is about communication. This paper examines the use of the terms communication, communicating and communicative in introductory linguistics texts to uncover the underlying assumptions about communication which they encapsulate. There are, in fact, relatively few mentions of communication in these introductory texts, and possible reasons for…
Jaqaru (review)
Reviewed by: Jaqaru by M. J. Hardman Timothy Jowan Curnow Jaqaru. By M. J. Hardman. (Languages of the world/materials 183.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2000. Pp. viii, 138. ISBN 3895862436. $63.48. Hardman’s grammar of the Peruvian language Jaqaru builds on her forty years of experience working with this language (as well as with the related Aymara language). It is an essentially descriptive grammar, following no particular theoretical model. The desc…
Nonvolitionality expressed through evidentials
Some languages code that an action was performed unintentionally using evidentials, which in other contexts indicate a speaker’s source of information. Evidentials are only used for indicating nonvolitionality when an action was carried out by the speaker in the past. The evidential marker may carry a quite different meaning in coding nonvolitionality, this may be an extension of its primary meaning, or it may simply be a pragmatic interpretation…
Can You Be Gay and Lesbian in Australian English
The use of the expression gay and lesbian in a corpus of televised spoken Australian English is examined. It is shown that speakers treat this as a lexicalized expression, rather than a productively created conjunct of gay and lesbian . The meaning of the whole expression is not predictable from the meaning of the parts, in that gay and lesbian is used to refer to a broader set of people than the sets covered by the terms gay and lesbian individu…
Three types of verbal logophoricity in African languages
The term logophoric is most strongly tied to pronominal systems. However, most recent literature on logophoricity accepts the existence of verbal marking of logophoricity. Through examining the verbal logophoricity which has been reported in African languages, it can be seen that there are three different types of verbal marking: logophoric cross-referencing, first person logophoricity, and verbal logophoric affixation. These different types may …
Conjunct/disjunct marking in Awa Pit
Awa Pit, a Barbacoan language spoken in Colombia and Ecuador, has a conjunct/disjunct system of verb suffixing similar to a person-marking system. It is a binary system, with conjunct used for first person in statements and second person in questions, while disjunct is used for second and third person in statements and first and third person in questions. Unlike the conjunct/disjunct system in a language such as Kathmandu Newari (Hale 1980), wher…
Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax
Intransitive Predication
Las completivas de sujeto en espanol
Maung verbal agreement revisited
Donohue's (1998) recent unarticle developed an Optimality Theory analysis of the verb prefix ordering of the general tense form of Maung, a non‐Pama Nyungan language of northern Australia. However, that analysis, with constraints based on grammatical relations and alignment categories, required one of the prefixes to be considered as an exception; it was treated as an absolutive prefix despite being formally and functionally an accusative prefix.…
Why Paez Is Not a Barbacoan Language
Semantics of Spanish causatives involving hacer
This paper examines the semantics of two Spanish causative constructions ‐ the hacer‐plus‐infinitive construction and the hacer‐plus‐subjunctive construction using Natural Semantic Metalanguage to describe the semantic invariants of these two constructions. The analysis is limited to sentences which have animate causers. From the analysis of such sentences, it can be demonstrated that the two constructions have similar but distinct meanings. The …
Students' home languages and the struggle for space in the curriculum
Although the importance of using students' home languages in education has been recognised for many years, home languages that are not official languages often struggle to find space in school curricula. This paper examines the ways that language-in-education policies influence the space available for non-official languages in the curriculum. It begins with a brief overview of the historical context that shapes how languages are understood in edu…
Conjunct/disjunct marking in Awa Pit
Awa Pit, a Barbacoan language spoken in Colombia and Ecuador, has a conjunct/disjunct system of verb suffixing similar to a person-marking system. It is a binary system, with conjunct used for first person in statements and second person in questions, while disjunct is used for second and third person in statements and first and third person in questions. Unlike the conjunct/disjunct system in a language such as Kathmandu Newari (Hale 1980), wher…
Educational responses to multilingualism
We would also like to thank Miranda Roccisano for her generous and highly professional text-editing in the preparation of the papers for this volume.Anthony J. Liddicoat, Kathleen Heugh, Timothy Jowan Curnow and Angela ScarinoResearch Centre for Languages and Cultures, School of Communication International Studies and Languages University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Three types of verbal logophoricity in African languages
The term logophoric is most strongly tied to pronominal systems. However, most recent literature on logophoricity accepts the existence of verbal marking of logophoricity. Through examining the verbal logophoricity which has been reported in African languages, it can be seen that there are three different types of verbal marking: logophoric cross-referencing, first person logophoricity, and verbal logophoric affixation. These different types may …
Why Paez Is Not a Barbacoan Language
Can You Be Gay and Lesbian in Australian English
The use of the expression gay and lesbian in a corpus of televised spoken Australian English is examined. It is shown that speakers treat this as a lexicalized expression, rather than a productively created conjunct of gay and lesbian . The meaning of the whole expression is not predictable from the meaning of the parts, in that gay and lesbian is used to refer to a broader set of people than the sets covered by the terms gay and lesbian individu…
Semantics of Spanish causatives involving hacer
This paper examines the semantics of two Spanish causative constructions ‐ the hacer‐plus‐infinitive construction and the hacer‐plus‐subjunctive construction using Natural Semantic Metalanguage to describe the semantic invariants of these two constructions. The analysis is limited to sentences which have animate causers. From the analysis of such sentences, it can be demonstrated that the two constructions have similar but distinct meanings. The …
Semantics of Spanish causatives involving hacer
This paper examines the semantics of two Spanish causative constructions ‐ the hacer‐plus‐infinitive construction and the hacer‐plus‐subjunctive construction using Natural Semantic Metalanguage to describe the semantic invariants of these two constructions. The analysis is limited to sentences which have animate causers. From the analysis of such sentences, it can be demonstrated that the two constructions have similar but distinct meanings. The …
Why Paez Is Not a Barbacoan Language
Maung verbal agreement revisited
Donohue's (1998) recent unarticle developed an Optimality Theory analysis of the verb prefix ordering of the general tense form of Maung, a non‐Pama Nyungan language of northern Australia. However, that analysis, with constraints based on grammatical relations and alignment categories, required one of the prefixes to be considered as an exception; it was treated as an absolutive prefix despite being formally and functionally an accusative prefix.…
Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax
Intransitive Predication
Las completivas de sujeto en espanol
Can You Be Gay and Lesbian in Australian English
The use of the expression gay and lesbian in a corpus of televised spoken Australian English is examined. It is shown that speakers treat this as a lexicalized expression, rather than a productively created conjunct of gay and lesbian . The meaning of the whole expression is not predictable from the meaning of the parts, in that gay and lesbian is used to refer to a broader set of people than the sets covered by the terms gay and lesbian individu…
Three types of verbal logophoricity in African languages
The term logophoric is most strongly tied to pronominal systems. However, most recent literature on logophoricity accepts the existence of verbal marking of logophoricity. Through examining the verbal logophoricity which has been reported in African languages, it can be seen that there are three different types of verbal marking: logophoric cross-referencing, first person logophoricity, and verbal logophoric affixation. These different types may …
Conjunct/disjunct marking in Awa Pit
Awa Pit, a Barbacoan language spoken in Colombia and Ecuador, has a conjunct/disjunct system of verb suffixing similar to a person-marking system. It is a binary system, with conjunct used for first person in statements and second person in questions, while disjunct is used for second and third person in statements and first and third person in questions. Unlike the conjunct/disjunct system in a language such as Kathmandu Newari (Hale 1980), wher…
Nonvolitionality expressed through evidentials
Some languages code that an action was performed unintentionally using evidentials, which in other contexts indicate a speaker’s source of information. Evidentials are only used for indicating nonvolitionality when an action was carried out by the speaker in the past. The evidential marker may carry a quite different meaning in coding nonvolitionality, this may be an extension of its primary meaning, or it may simply be a pragmatic interpretation…
Jaqaru (review)
Reviewed by: Jaqaru by M. J. Hardman Timothy Jowan Curnow Jaqaru. By M. J. Hardman. (Languages of the world/materials 183.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2000. Pp. viii, 138. ISBN 3895862436. $63.48. Hardman’s grammar of the Peruvian language Jaqaru builds on her forty years of experience working with this language (as well as with the related Aymara language). It is an essentially descriptive grammar, following no particular theoretical model. The desc…
Communication in Introductory Linguistics
Linguistics is the study of language, and for most non-linguists (including linguistics students), language is about communication. This paper examines the use of the terms communication, communicating and communicative in introductory linguistics texts to uncover the underlying assumptions about communication which they encapsulate. There are, in fact, relatively few mentions of communication in these introductory texts, and possible reasons for…
Students' home languages and the struggle for space in the curriculum
Although the importance of using students' home languages in education has been recognised for many years, home languages that are not official languages often struggle to find space in school curricula. This paper examines the ways that language-in-education policies influence the space available for non-official languages in the curriculum. It begins with a brief overview of the historical context that shapes how languages are understood in edu…
Educational responses to multilingualism
We would also like to thank Miranda Roccisano for her generous and highly professional text-editing in the preparation of the papers for this volume.Anthony J. Liddicoat, Kathleen Heugh, Timothy Jowan Curnow and Angela ScarinoResearch Centre for Languages and Cultures, School of Communication International Studies and Languages University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works)