Angela Terrill
Biographic Data
| ID | 803773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Terrill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Terrill |
| SIGNATURE | TERRILL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing the lexical evidence for a Central Solomons Papuan family using the Oswalt Monte Carlo Test
In the absence of comparative method reconstruction, high rate of lexical cognate candidates is often used as evidence for relationships between languages. This paper uses the Oswalt Monte Carlo Shift test (a variant of Oswalt 1970) to explore the statistical basis of the claim that the four Papuan languages of the Solomon Islands have greater than chance levels of lexical similarity. The results of this test initially appear to show that the lex…
Linguistic fieldwork: A practical guide (review)
Reviewed by: Linguistic fieldwork: A practical guide Angela Terrill Linguistic fieldwork: A practical guide. By Claire Bowern. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. Pp. 260. ISBN 9780230545380. $35. This engaging textbook covers all conceivable aspects of fieldwork, from the preparation stage of writing grant proposals and obtaining visas, to the final stages of archiving the data. Fieldwork culminating in a descriptively based grammar has long bee…
Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference
This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands), and supporting data from five more languages, to show that the orientation strategy is a major organizing principle in these lan…
Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia
Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of S…
Four languages from the lower end of the typology of locative predication
As proposed by Ameka and Levinson (this issue) locative verb systems can be classified into four types according to the number of verbs distinguished. This article addresses the lower extreme of this typology: languages which offer no choice of verb in the basic locative function (BLF). These languages have either a single locative verb, or do not use verbs at all in the basic locative construction (BLC, the construction used to encode the BLF). …
Body part terms in Lavukaleve, a Papuan language of the Solomon Islands
Contrasting contrastive demonstratives in Tiriyó and Lavukaleve
This article explores the contrastive function of demonstratives in two languages, Tiriyó (Cariban, northern Brazil) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands). The contrastive function has to a large extent been neglected in the theoretical literature on demonstrative functions, although preliminary investigations suggest that there are significant differences in demonstrative use in contrastive versus noncontrastive contexts. Tiriyó and L…
Orthographic design in the Solomon Islands: The social, historical, and linguistic situation of Touo (Baniata)
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The East Papuan Languages: A Preliminary Typological Appraisal
Trus paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to considering their typological similarities and diferences. The East Papuan lzmguages are thought to be the descendants of the Iiu~guages spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50,000 years ago. The Oceanic Austronesian languages are thought to have come into the area with the Lapita peoples 3,500yearsago. With this historica…
Systems of Nominal Classification in East Papuan Languages
Systems of Nominal Classification in East Papuan Languages Angela Terrill Abstract The existence of nominal classification systems has long been thought of as one of the defining features of the Papuan languages of island New Guinea. However, while almost all of these languages do have nominal classification systems, they are, in fact, extremely divergent from each other. This paper examines these systems in the East Papuan languages in order to …
Why make books for people who dont read? A perspective on documentation of an endangered language from Solomon Islands
Article Why make books for people who dont read? A perspective on documentation of an endangered language from Solomon Islands was published on June 26, 2002 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2002, issue 155-156)
The development of antipassive constructions in Australian languages∗
Antipassive constructions occur in a small minority of Australian languages. The overwhelming majority of these antipassive constructions are marked by the same verbal morphology that each language uses to mark its reflexive construction. This paper compares the functional properties of antipassives and reflexives, in order to suggest a historical explanation for their shared morphology, and proposes that antipassive constructions in these langua…
Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia
Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of S…
Why make books for people who dont read? A perspective on documentation of an endangered language from Solomon Islands
Article Why make books for people who dont read? A perspective on documentation of an endangered language from Solomon Islands was published on June 26, 2002 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2002, issue 155-156)
Body part terms in Lavukaleve, a Papuan language of the Solomon Islands
The development of antipassive constructions in Australian languages∗
Antipassive constructions occur in a small minority of Australian languages. The overwhelming majority of these antipassive constructions are marked by the same verbal morphology that each language uses to mark its reflexive construction. This paper compares the functional properties of antipassives and reflexives, in order to suggest a historical explanation for their shared morphology, and proposes that antipassive constructions in these langua…
The development of antipassive constructions in Australian languages∗
Antipassive constructions occur in a small minority of Australian languages. The overwhelming majority of these antipassive constructions are marked by the same verbal morphology that each language uses to mark its reflexive construction. This paper compares the functional properties of antipassives and reflexives, in order to suggest a historical explanation for their shared morphology, and proposes that antipassive constructions in these langua…
The East Papuan Languages: A Preliminary Typological Appraisal
Trus paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to considering their typological similarities and diferences. The East Papuan lzmguages are thought to be the descendants of the Iiu~guages spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50,000 years ago. The Oceanic Austronesian languages are thought to have come into the area with the Lapita peoples 3,500yearsago. With this historica…
Systems of Nominal Classification in East Papuan Languages
Systems of Nominal Classification in East Papuan Languages Angela Terrill Abstract The existence of nominal classification systems has long been thought of as one of the defining features of the Papuan languages of island New Guinea. However, while almost all of these languages do have nominal classification systems, they are, in fact, extremely divergent from each other. This paper examines these systems in the East Papuan languages in order to …
Why make books for people who dont read? A perspective on documentation of an endangered language from Solomon Islands
Article Why make books for people who dont read? A perspective on documentation of an endangered language from Solomon Islands was published on June 26, 2002 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2002, issue 155-156)
Orthographic design in the Solomon Islands: The social, historical, and linguistic situation of Touo (Baniata)
Preview this article: Orthographic design in the Solomon Islands: The social, historical, and linguistic situation of Touo (Baniata), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/wll.6.2.03ter-1.gif
Contrasting contrastive demonstratives in Tiriyó and Lavukaleve
This article explores the contrastive function of demonstratives in two languages, Tiriyó (Cariban, northern Brazil) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands). The contrastive function has to a large extent been neglected in the theoretical literature on demonstrative functions, although preliminary investigations suggest that there are significant differences in demonstrative use in contrastive versus noncontrastive contexts. Tiriyó and L…
Body part terms in Lavukaleve, a Papuan language of the Solomon Islands
Four languages from the lower end of the typology of locative predication
As proposed by Ameka and Levinson (this issue) locative verb systems can be classified into four types according to the number of verbs distinguished. This article addresses the lower extreme of this typology: languages which offer no choice of verb in the basic locative function (BLF). These languages have either a single locative verb, or do not use verbs at all in the basic locative construction (BLC, the construction used to encode the BLF). …
Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference
This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands), and supporting data from five more languages, to show that the orientation strategy is a major organizing principle in these lan…
Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia
Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of S…
Linguistic fieldwork: A practical guide (review)
Reviewed by: Linguistic fieldwork: A practical guide Angela Terrill Linguistic fieldwork: A practical guide. By Claire Bowern. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. Pp. 260. ISBN 9780230545380. $35. This engaging textbook covers all conceivable aspects of fieldwork, from the preparation stage of writing grant proposals and obtaining visas, to the final stages of archiving the data. Fieldwork culminating in a descriptively based grammar has long bee…
Assessing the lexical evidence for a Central Solomons Papuan family using the Oswalt Monte Carlo Test
In the absence of comparative method reconstruction, high rate of lexical cognate candidates is often used as evidence for relationships between languages. This paper uses the Oswalt Monte Carlo Shift test (a variant of Oswalt 1970) to explore the statistical basis of the claim that the four Papuan languages of the Solomon Islands have greater than chance levels of lexical similarity. The results of this test initially appear to show that the lex…
Linguistics (11 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Language and cultural evolution (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works)