William A Foley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 180729 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William A Foley |
| PRENOMES | William A |
| SOBRENOME | Foley |
| ASSINATURA | FOLEY W A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2487-2068 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Anthropological Linguistics
Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic practices, as resources to forge large and small, transient or permanent social groups. Such semiotic practices are underpinned by abilities and conventions at three levels: individual‐cognitive, interpersonal‐interactive, and sociocultural‐institutional, and the breadth …
How to Say “No” in Palauan
Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1975), pp. 132-146
Anthropological Linguistics
Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics (and anthropology) concerned with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, its role in forging and sustaining cultural practices and social structures. While Duranti (2001) denies that a true field of anthropological linguistics exists, preferring the term linguistic anthropology to cover this subfield, I regard the two terms as interchangeable. With some cogency, D…
Gender and Language in Ethnographic and Evolutionary Perspectives
Much research in the field of language and gender has been hampered by unquestioned a priori dualistic assumptions about contrasting gender roles for men and women. The works reviewed here all demonstrate that simplistic dualistic beliefs about what are typical male or female ways of speaking do not hold water. The variables that determine speech styles are complex and mutually interactive: place of residence, class, formality, age, and gender, a…
A typology of information packaging in the clause
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Universal constraints and local conditions in Pidginization
This paper looks at the processes involved in the genesis of three pidgins of New Guinea. I will argue that the main principle at work in the formation of the morphosyntax of pidgins is a general human capacity for language simplification, but that these processes of simplification are subject both to the effects of specific linguistic features in the local multilingual contact situation that gives rise to the pidgin and to constraints resulting …
Semantic parameters and the unaccusative split in the Austronesian language family
A fundamental issue facing all models of grammar is the mapping problem: how to link the semantic arguments defined by the lexical verb in a clause to their formal realizations in morphosyntax. This paper investigates this problem across a range of intransitive verb types, often grouped into unergative and unaccusative classes. It demonstrates that the criteria which determine this split vary across the Austronesian languages investigated, but th…
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Functions and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Chris Knight. Michael Studdert-Kennedy. and James R. Hurford. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii. 426 pp
The Languages of New Guinea
The New Guinea region is the most linguistically diverse region in the world, with some 1000 languages in an area smaller than 900,000 km2. There are about three dozen language families and close to the same number of language isolates, although two very different language families, each with about 300 languages, dominate: the coastal Austronesian languages, and the montane Trans New Guinea family. The other, smaller families are largely restrict…
Grammatical Relations, Information Structure, and Constituency in Watam
This language of the north coast of Papua New Guinea is typologically unusual in its structuring of information. On the one hand, it belongs to a class of languages that has been termed discourse configurational, in that the constituent structure of its clause may be determined largely by information structure considerations, rather than grammatical relations. Intertwined with this system, however, is a more syntacticized system signalled by the …
Shorter notices
McGregor, William B. 1993. Gunin/Kwini.. (Languages of the World/ Materials 11). Munich: Lincom Europa. Pp.61. Paper US$11.10. Mosel, Ulrike and Hovdhaugen, Even. Samoan reference grammar. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. 1992. Pp.xxii + 819
The Role of Theory in Language Description
The Role of Theory in Language Description
The Yimas Language of New Guinea
The Yimas Language of New Guinea
The Yimas Language of New Guinea
New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality
Hua
There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study of such a language, Hua. The chief typological peculiarity of Hua is the existence of a ‘medial verb’construction used to conjoin clauses in compound an…
Toward a Universal Typology of the Noun Phrase
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Functional grammar and cultural anthropology (For Alton Becker)
One can only hope that linguists will become increasingly aware of the significance of their subject in the general field of science and will not stand aloof behind a tradition that threatens to become scholastic when not vitalised by interests which lie beyond the formal interest in language itself. Edward Sapir (1929:75)
On the organization of "subject" properties in universal grammar
Anthropological Linguistics
Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics (and anthropology) concerned with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, its role in forging and sustaining cultural practices and social structures. While Duranti (2001) denies that a true field of anthropological linguistics exists, preferring the term linguistic anthropology to cover this subfield, I regard the two terms as interchangeable. With some cogency, D…
The Languages of New Guinea
The New Guinea region is the most linguistically diverse region in the world, with some 1000 languages in an area smaller than 900,000 km2. There are about three dozen language families and close to the same number of language isolates, although two very different language families, each with about 300 languages, dominate: the coastal Austronesian languages, and the montane Trans New Guinea family. The other, smaller families are largely restrict…
Gender and Language in Ethnographic and Evolutionary Perspectives
Much research in the field of language and gender has been hampered by unquestioned a priori dualistic assumptions about contrasting gender roles for men and women. The works reviewed here all demonstrate that simplistic dualistic beliefs about what are typical male or female ways of speaking do not hold water. The variables that determine speech styles are complex and mutually interactive: place of residence, class, formality, age, and gender, a…
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Functions and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Chris Knight. Michael Studdert-Kennedy. and James R. Hurford. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii. 426 pp
On the organization of "subject" properties in universal grammar
Toward a Universal Typology of the Noun Phrase
Preview this article: Toward a Universal Typology of the Noun Phrase, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.4.2.02fol-1.gif
Functional grammar and cultural anthropology (For Alton Becker)
One can only hope that linguists will become increasingly aware of the significance of their subject in the general field of science and will not stand aloof behind a tradition that threatens to become scholastic when not vitalised by interests which lie beyond the formal interest in language itself. Edward Sapir (1929:75)
Hua
There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study of such a language, Hua. The chief typological peculiarity of Hua is the existence of a ‘medial verb’construction used to conjoin clauses in compound an…
New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality
The Yimas Language of New Guinea
The Yimas Language of New Guinea
The Yimas Language of New Guinea
The Role of Theory in Language Description
Shorter notices
McGregor, William B. 1993. Gunin/Kwini.. (Languages of the World/ Materials 11). Munich: Lincom Europa. Pp.61. Paper US$11.10. Mosel, Ulrike and Hovdhaugen, Even. Samoan reference grammar. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. 1992. Pp.xxii + 819
The Role of Theory in Language Description
Grammatical Relations, Information Structure, and Constituency in Watam
This language of the north coast of Papua New Guinea is typologically unusual in its structuring of information. On the one hand, it belongs to a class of languages that has been termed discourse configurational, in that the constituent structure of its clause may be determined largely by information structure considerations, rather than grammatical relations. Intertwined with this system, however, is a more syntacticized system signalled by the …
The Languages of New Guinea
The New Guinea region is the most linguistically diverse region in the world, with some 1000 languages in an area smaller than 900,000 km2. There are about three dozen language families and close to the same number of language isolates, although two very different language families, each with about 300 languages, dominate: the coastal Austronesian languages, and the montane Trans New Guinea family. The other, smaller families are largely restrict…
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Functions and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Chris Knight. Michael Studdert-Kennedy. and James R. Hurford. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii. 426 pp
Semantic parameters and the unaccusative split in the Austronesian language family
A fundamental issue facing all models of grammar is the mapping problem: how to link the semantic arguments defined by the lexical verb in a clause to their formal realizations in morphosyntax. This paper investigates this problem across a range of intransitive verb types, often grouped into unergative and unaccusative classes. It demonstrates that the criteria which determine this split vary across the Austronesian languages investigated, but th…
Universal constraints and local conditions in Pidginization
This paper looks at the processes involved in the genesis of three pidgins of New Guinea. I will argue that the main principle at work in the formation of the morphosyntax of pidgins is a general human capacity for language simplification, but that these processes of simplification are subject both to the effects of specific linguistic features in the local multilingual contact situation that gives rise to the pidgin and to constraints resulting …
A typology of information packaging in the clause
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Gender and Language in Ethnographic and Evolutionary Perspectives
Much research in the field of language and gender has been hampered by unquestioned a priori dualistic assumptions about contrasting gender roles for men and women. The works reviewed here all demonstrate that simplistic dualistic beliefs about what are typical male or female ways of speaking do not hold water. The variables that determine speech styles are complex and mutually interactive: place of residence, class, formality, age, and gender, a…
Anthropological Linguistics
Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics (and anthropology) concerned with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, its role in forging and sustaining cultural practices and social structures. While Duranti (2001) denies that a true field of anthropological linguistics exists, preferring the term linguistic anthropology to cover this subfield, I regard the two terms as interchangeable. With some cogency, D…
How to Say “No” in Palauan
Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1975), pp. 132-146
Anthropological Linguistics
Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic practices, as resources to forge large and small, transient or permanent social groups. Such semiotic practices are underpinned by abilities and conventions at three levels: individual‐cognitive, interpersonal‐interactive, and sociocultural‐institutional, and the breadth …
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