Patrick Dickens
Biographic Data
| ID | 77276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Dickens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickens |
| SIGNATURE | DICKENS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
English-Jul'Hoan / Jul'Hoan-English Dictionary
Why anthropologists need linguistics: The case of the !Kung
Social anthropologists who have worked among the Zhu speakers of !Kung have paid very little attention to the long tradition of linguistic analyses of the language which have provided an adequate record of its sounds and words. This has resulted in misleading and inaccurate representations of names and words in the anthropological literature on the Zhu. As long as faulty linguistic data are not used as the basis of inferences about Zhu culture, t…
Qhalaxarzi consonants
Qhalaxari verb tone classes
3. SUMMARY This paper has been an attempt to show the historical development of the Qhalaxari verb tone classes. Its findings may be summarized as follows: (i) CB and Qhalaxari tone is autosegmental. This was shown by the fact that CB ∗CV radicals retain their tones in Qhalaxari even though the original tone‐bearing vowel had been desyllabified or deleted. (ii) Double‐vowel and single‐vowel radicals have merged to single‐vowel radicals only. This…
A preliminary report on Kgalagadi vowels
1978). A preliminary report on Kgalagadi vowels. African Studies: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 99-106
Grammar simplification via rule inversion: The effect of historical deletion of Nasals on modern Sotho
1977). Grammar simplification via rule inversion: the effect of historical deletion of Nasals on modern Sotho. African Studies: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 161-170
Why anthropologists need linguistics: The case of the !Kung
Social anthropologists who have worked among the Zhu speakers of !Kung have paid very little attention to the long tradition of linguistic analyses of the language which have provided an adequate record of its sounds and words. This has resulted in misleading and inaccurate representations of names and words in the anthropological literature on the Zhu. As long as faulty linguistic data are not used as the basis of inferences about Zhu culture, t…
A preliminary report on Kgalagadi vowels
1978). A preliminary report on Kgalagadi vowels. African Studies: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 99-106
Grammar simplification via rule inversion: The effect of historical deletion of Nasals on modern Sotho
1977). Grammar simplification via rule inversion: the effect of historical deletion of Nasals on modern Sotho. African Studies: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 161-170
Grammar simplification via rule inversion: The effect of historical deletion of Nasals on modern Sotho
1977). Grammar simplification via rule inversion: the effect of historical deletion of Nasals on modern Sotho. African Studies: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 161-170
A preliminary report on Kgalagadi vowels
1978). A preliminary report on Kgalagadi vowels. African Studies: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 99-106
Qhalaxari verb tone classes
3. SUMMARY This paper has been an attempt to show the historical development of the Qhalaxari verb tone classes. Its findings may be summarized as follows: (i) CB and Qhalaxari tone is autosegmental. This was shown by the fact that CB ∗CV radicals retain their tones in Qhalaxari even though the original tone‐bearing vowel had been desyllabified or deleted. (ii) Double‐vowel and single‐vowel radicals have merged to single‐vowel radicals only. This…
Qhalaxarzi consonants
Why anthropologists need linguistics: The case of the !Kung
Social anthropologists who have worked among the Zhu speakers of !Kung have paid very little attention to the long tradition of linguistic analyses of the language which have provided an adequate record of its sounds and words. This has resulted in misleading and inaccurate representations of names and words in the anthropological literature on the Zhu. As long as faulty linguistic data are not used as the basis of inferences about Zhu culture, t…
English-Jul'Hoan / Jul'Hoan-English Dictionary
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works)