Charles A Ferguson
Biographic Data
| ID | 83121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles A Ferguson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferguson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSON C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5655-2735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 900 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Directions in Sociolinguistics: Report on an Interdisciplinary Seminar
A 1964 summer seminar hosted by the SSRC's Committee on Sociolinguistics highlighted tensions between sociology and linguistics when scholars gathered to address how their disciplines can deepen research on language's impact on society. For example, sociologists questioned linguistics' lack of definition for language or dialect while linguists raised concerns about sociology's reliance on large quantified data. However, by the end of the seminar,…
Épilogue: La Diglossie Revisitée (1991)
Dans cet article de 1991, Ferguson synthétise un ensemble de réflexions qu'il a eu l'occasion de présenter dans diverses conférences à propos de son article paru dans Word en 1959 - article ayant introduit le terme « diglossia » (calque de diglossie ) dans la littérature en sciences du langage. Ferguson revient d'abord sur son intention initiale : relever des cas exemplaires de ce qu'il appelle diglossia , identifier leurs traits caractéristiques…
Diglossia
Geologic map of the Silver City quadrangle, Grant County, New Mexico
This draft geologic map is preliminary and will undergo revision.It was produced from either scans of hand-drafted originals or from digitally drafted original maps and figures using a wide variety of software, and is currently in cartographic production.It is being distributed in this draft form as part of the bureau's Open-file map series (OFGM), due to high demand for
Root-Echo Responses in Syrian Arabic Politeness Formulas
Myths About Arabic
Sociolinguistic Perspectives: Papers on Language in Society 1959-1994, [by] Charles A. Ferguson
Note on Swedish English
Phonological Development: Models, Research, Implications
Crosscurrents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theories
1. Preface 2. I. Overview 3. Second language acquisition: litmus test for linguistic theory? (by Huebner, Thom) 4. Recent trends in syntactic theory (by Sells, Peter) 5. Typology/universals and second language acquisition (by Greenberg, Joseph H.) 6. II. From Theories to Hypothesis Testing 7. Prosodic phonology: second language acquisition data as evidence in theoretical phonology (by Vogel, Irene) 8. Natural morphology: the organization of parad…
Foreign Language Instruction and second Language Acquisition Research in the United States
Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
Agreement in Natural Language: Approaches, Theories, Descriptions
Preface 1. Introduction Charles A. Ferguson and Michael Barlow 2. Agreement: a partial specification based on Slavonic data Greville G. Corbett 3. On the function of agreement Christian Lehmann 4. Toward a unified theory of agreement Steven G. Lapoint 5. Agreement and markedness Edith A. Moravcsik 6. Agreement in Arabic, binding and coherence Abdelkader Fassi Fehri 7. Agreement vs. case marketing and direct objects William Croft 8. Case agreement…
The Verbal Structure in Colloquial Bengali
Literacy in a Hunting-Gathering Society: The Case of the Diyari
Vernacular literacy "took hold" among the Diyari, a nonliterate hunting-gathering Aboriginal society in central Australia, as a result of their experience with German Lutheran missionaries in the nineteenth century. Factors affecting this transfer, which took place in spite of culture conflict, include missionary ideology and everyday literacy practices as well as new Diyari communicative needs. The process is compared with the beginning of verna…
On Conditionals
On Conditionals provides the first major cross-disciplinary account of conditional (if-then) constructions. Conditional sentences directly reflect the language user's ability to reason about alternatives, uncertainties, and unrealised contingencies. An understanding of the conceptual and behavioural organisation involved in the construction and interpretation of these kinds of sentences therefore provides fundamental insights into the inferential…
Geology of the east-central San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico
Reduplication in child phonology
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Language Planning in the USA
Sports announcer talk: Syntactic aspects of register variation
The language of sports casting is analyzed in terms of register variation. First the register is “located” by successive approximations to a characterization of its occasions of use, then selected syntactic characteristics are identified: simplification (deletion of copula and sentence initial nominals), inversions, heavy modifiers, result expressions ( for + noun, to + verb), routines (e.g., giving the “count”). Some of these are discussed in re…
Child Phonology
Foreigner Talk' as the Name of a Simplified Register
Universals of Human Language, I: Method and Theory
Universals of Human Language, III: Word Structure
Universals of Human Language, IV: Syntax
Diglossia
Baby Talk in Six Languages
Words and Sounds in Early Language Acquisition
Development of initial-consonant production in relation to the acquisition of words is investigated. Longitudinal data of three children are analysed from about age 1; 0 until the total recorded lexicon reaches 50 or more words. Using the word as the basis of analysis, PHONE CLASSES are set up for each child and are followed through time in PHONE TREES. As in historical sound change, both lexical and phonetic parameters are involved. Phonological…
The structure and use of politeness formulas
The use of interpersonal verbal routines such as greetings and thanks is examined as a universal phenomenon of human languages, related in some way to the widespread 'greeting' behavior of other animals. Examples from Syrian Arabic, American English, and other languages are used to show differing patterns of structure and use, susceptible of grammatical and sociolinguistic analysis. Features of diachronic change and children's acquisition are bri…
Sports announcer talk: Syntactic aspects of register variation
The language of sports casting is analyzed in terms of register variation. First the register is “located” by successive approximations to a characterization of its occasions of use, then selected syntactic characteristics are identified: simplification (deletion of copula and sentence initial nominals), inversions, heavy modifiers, result expressions ( for + noun, to + verb), routines (e.g., giving the “count”). Some of these are discussed in re…
The Arabic Koine
It has usually been assumed that the modern Arabic dialects are on the whole lineal descendants of Classical Arabic or of a variety very similar to this. Stated differently, this assumption holds that apart from borrowings and innovations the linguistic substance of the modern dialects is a direct continuation of an earlier stage of Arabic substantially identical with the Classical Arabic of the grammarians, with only a few isolated instances in …
The Sound Pattern of Russian: A Linguistic and Acoustical Investigation
Model-and-replica phonological grammar of a child's first words
Word Stress in Persian
The position of stress is generally recognized as contrastive in modern Persian, and examples of minimal contrast are often cited, such as máhi ‘a month’ : mahí ‘fish’. But grammars of Persian fail to give a complete account of the distribution of stress and most dictionaries give either sporadic and unreliable indication of stress or none at all. The primary purpose of this paper is to examine in some detail the position of word stress and its r…
The Phonemes of Bengali
This study presents a summary of the phonological structure of the Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB) of the educated people of Calcutta. It offers neither a mass of detailed data nor startling innovations of theory, but is intended to provide basic explanation for someone who wants to know the facts about the phonology of the language. There are astonishingly few straightforward descriptions of the phonologies of the various modern languages of S…
The Emphatic l in Arabic
The existence of an ‘emphatic’ or velarized in Classical Arabic and the modern dialects has often been noted and the sound has been carefully described. Descriptions which have been made from a structural point of view have generally regarded this emphatic as an allophone of the usual l , not an independent phoneme, both in the Classical language and in the dialects. The purpose of this note is to make clear why the emphatic must be regarded as a…
Note on Swedish English
Foreigner Talk' as the Name of a Simplified Register
Two Problems in Arabic Phonology
Épilogue: La Diglossie Revisitée (1991)
Dans cet article de 1991, Ferguson synthétise un ensemble de réflexions qu'il a eu l'occasion de présenter dans diverses conférences à propos de son article paru dans Word en 1959 - article ayant introduit le terme « diglossia » (calque de diglossie ) dans la littérature en sciences du langage. Ferguson revient d'abord sur son intention initiale : relever des cas exemplaires de ce qu'il appelle diglossia , identifier leurs traits caractéristiques…
Literacy in a Hunting-Gathering Society: The Case of the Diyari
Vernacular literacy "took hold" among the Diyari, a nonliterate hunting-gathering Aboriginal society in central Australia, as a result of their experience with German Lutheran missionaries in the nineteenth century. Factors affecting this transfer, which took place in spite of culture conflict, include missionary ideology and everyday literacy practices as well as new Diyari communicative needs. The process is compared with the beginning of verna…
Language in Ethiopia: Implications of a Survey for Sociolinguistic Theory and Method
Work of the Language Survey of Ethiopia is drawn on to illustrate that social surveys can contribute to scientific theories and methods as well as to policy making. Findings with regard to four general problems are indicated: a metric of linguistic distance (considered here in terms of selection of diagnostic traits for linguistic areas, subgrouping of related languages, and dialect variation within a language; measurement of basic cognate freque…
The /g/ in Syrian Arabic: Filling a Gap in a Phonological Pattern
Directions in Sociolinguistics: Report on an Interdisciplinary Seminar
A 1964 summer seminar hosted by the SSRC's Committee on Sociolinguistics highlighted tensions between sociology and linguistics when scholars gathered to address how their disciplines can deepen research on language's impact on society. For example, sociologists questioned linguistics' lack of definition for language or dialect while linguists raised concerns about sociology's reliance on large quantified data. However, by the end of the seminar,…
Language Problems of Developing Nations
Saints’ Names in American Lutheran Church Dedications
PARISH CHURCHES in North America have various kinds of names. 1 Some of them are geographical, identifying the location of the church by the name of the town or section of town or street (e.g., Northgate Church), while others may indicate national origins or language (e.g., First English Church). Most of them, however, follow the tradition which uses a distinctively Christian appellation: a name of the Godhead, a Christian virtue or doctrine, a s…
Language Study and the Middle East
Language instruction is an important part of Middle Eastern studies, as in all area programs. Analysis of the language facts of the Middle East and American needs and interests in the area makes it possible to set reasonable goals for language study. Traditional patterns of Middle Eastern lan guage study are no longer appropriate, but recent innovations in curriculum, methods of teaching, summer programs and study abroad point toward solutions of…
Iraqi Children's Rhymes
Stress Patterns in Arabic
Growth and Structure of the Egyptian Arabic Dialect
A Chart of the Bengali Verb
Seven Bengali Riddles
Bengali Proverbs
Cours gradué d'arabe marocain
Sudan colloquial Arabic
Mu'ǧamu l'alfāḍi l'āmmiyyati fi llahǧati llubnāniyyah, ǧama'ahā wafassarahā waraddahā 'ilā 'uṣūliha 'Anīs Frayḥah. A Dictionary of Non-Classical Vocables in the Spoken Arabic of Lebanon
Critical Bibliography of Spoken Arabic Proverb Literature
HIS ARTICLE' presents a classified list of 128 titles of studies of spoken Arabic proverbs together with a brief description and evaluation of each study examined by the authors. The list has been compiled primarily to serve as a tool for folkloristic studies (descriptive, distributional, or otherwise) of Arabic culture. European and American folklorists in citing Arabic proverbs tend to limit themselves to relatively few sources, and these chief…
Manuel élémentaire d'arabe orientale (parler de Damas)
Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart
Growth and Structure of the Egyptian Arabic Dialect
Modern Lebanese Proverbs, Collected at Ras al-Matn, Lebanon
Die klassisch-arabischen Sprichwortersammlungen insbesondere die des Abu 'Ubaid
Dictionnaire arabe-francais (Dialectes de Syrie: (Alep, Damas, Liban, Jerusalem)
Stress Patterns in Arabic
The Emphatic l in Arabic
The existence of an ‘emphatic’ or velarized in Classical Arabic and the modern dialects has often been noted and the sound has been carefully described. Descriptions which have been made from a structural point of view have generally regarded this emphatic as an allophone of the usual l , not an independent phoneme, both in the Classical language and in the dialects. The purpose of this note is to make clear why the emphatic must be regarded as a…
Fonetika tureckogo literaturnogo jazyka
A Manual of Phonological Description
Two Problems in Arabic Phonology
Studies in Arabic and General Syntax
Word Stress in Persian
The position of stress is generally recognized as contrastive in modern Persian, and examples of minimal contrast are often cited, such as máhi ‘a month’ : mahí ‘fish’. But grammars of Persian fail to give a complete account of the distribution of stress and most dictionaries give either sporadic and unreliable indication of stress or none at all. The primary purpose of this paper is to examine in some detail the position of word stress and its r…
L'arabe classique: Esquisse d'une structure linguistique
Diglossia
The Arabic Koine
It has usually been assumed that the modern Arabic dialects are on the whole lineal descendants of Classical Arabic or of a variety very similar to this. Stated differently, this assumption holds that apart from borrowings and innovations the linguistic substance of the modern dialects is a direct continuation of an earlier stage of Arabic substantially identical with the Classical Arabic of the grammarians, with only a few isolated instances in …
Iraqi Children's Rhymes
The Phonemes of Bengali
This study presents a summary of the phonological structure of the Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB) of the educated people of Calcutta. It offers neither a mass of detailed data nor startling innovations of theory, but is intended to provide basic explanation for someone who wants to know the facts about the phonology of the language. There are astonishingly few straightforward descriptions of the phonologies of the various modern languages of S…
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