Alan Dench
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 196900 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Dench |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Dench |
| ASSINATURA | DENCH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1374-5680 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Possession in Martuthunira
© Editorial matter and organization Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon 2013 © The chapters their several authors 2013. All rights reserved. This chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of expression of possession and of ownership in Martuthunira, an extinct Australian language, formerly spoken in the Plibara region of Northern Australia. Pertensive, proprietive are employed to express possessive relationships. Genitive is used for some ty…
Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Australian Languages
The articles included in this issue of the Australian Journal of Linguistics, along with the article ‘The functions of reported speech and thought in Umpithamu narratives’ by Jean-Christophe Verstr
A Semantic Type-driven Account of Verb-formation Patterns in Panyjima
In this paper we propose a semantic type-driven account of verb-formation patterns in Panyjima. By offering an explicit theory for the construal of semantically simplex event descriptions from morphologically complex verbal stems, we flesh out intuitions dating back to Clark and Clark (1979) about the role of derivational morphology in the interpretation of derived verbs, especially denominal verbs. This latter point is of particular relevance to…
Now or Then ? The Clitic - rru in Panyjima
The clitic -rru in Panyjima, glossed as ‘now’ by Dench, appears not only in present tense but also in past and future clauses. This paper analyses the uses of this clitic and its interactions with tenses at clause level, as well as its role in the wider discourse context. We argue that -rru has temporal and contrastive properties, more specifically that -rru modifies the time of the eventuality denoted and signals a change: it introduces a contra…
Case Marking Strategies in Subordinate Clauses in Pilbara Languages—Some Diachronic Speculations* I am especially grateful to those people who worked with me in recording information about their langu…
This paper considers possible diachronic explanations for the range of case marking patterns found in subordinate clauses in languages of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. There are two parameters to consider in comparing patterns across the area. First, complements and adjuncts of verbs in dependent clauses may have patterns of case marking different from those of independent finite clauses. Second, nominal suffixes functioning as complem…
Descent and Diffusion
This chapter presents a case study of a group of Australian languages for which it is especially difficult to determine whether shared innovations are the result of genetic inheritance from a common ancestor or are the result of contact. In the preceding chapter of this volume, Dixon demonstrates the difficulty of determining clear genetic groupings across the Australian continent as a whole. This chapter shows that similar problems of indetermin…
Pidgin Ngarluma
This paper discusses evidence of an early pidgin in use amongst Aboriginal people of the north west coast of Western Australia. The crucial evidence comes from an Italian manuscript describing the rescue, by local Aborigines, of two castaways wrecked on North West Cape in 1875. The data reveals that the local Aborigines attempted to communicate with the Italian-speaking survivors using what appears to be an Australian language spoken some 300 kil…
What is a Ngayarta language? A reply to O'Grady and Laughren
The historical development of pronoun paradigms in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
This paper presents a detailed account of the changes affecting pronoun paradigms in a sample of thirteen languages of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The reconstruction demonstrates a number of interesting diachronic trends including analogical levelling, the loss and later reintroduction of inclusive/exclusive person categories and the waxing and waning of nominative/ergative case syncretisms. In addition, it appears that many of the c…
Complex Sentences in Martuthunira
Multiple case-marking in Australian languages
Kinship and collective activity in the Ngayarda languages of Australia
This paper describes the functions of a verbal derivational suffix found in the Ngayarda languages Panyjima, Martuthunira, Yinyjiparnti, and Kurrama. This suffix, which appears at first blush to be an essentially syntactic device very like the reciprocal suffix found in other Australian languages, may be used to indicate the existence of a particular kin relationship between participants involved in the action described by a verb. The paper prese…
The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia
(1982). The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 43-59
Kin terms and pronouns of the Panyjima language of Northwest Western Australia
(1980). Kin terms and pronouns of the Panyjima language of Northwest Western Australia. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 105-120
Martuthunira
This thesis is a reference grammar of Martuthunira, an Australian language of the Ngayarda subgroup of Pama-Nyungan, and originally spoken in the locality of the Fortescue River in northwest Western Australia. There are now just three remaining speakers and this thesis is based on the speech of one man - Algy Paterson. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the Martuthunira language and its speakers; the traditional patterns of social organ…
Multiple case-marking in Australian languages
Martuthunira
This thesis is a reference grammar of Martuthunira, an Australian language of the Ngayarda subgroup of Pama-Nyungan, and originally spoken in the locality of the Fortescue River in northwest Western Australia. There are now just three remaining speakers and this thesis is based on the speech of one man - Algy Paterson. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the Martuthunira language and its speakers; the traditional patterns of social organ…
Now or Then ? The Clitic - rru in Panyjima
The clitic -rru in Panyjima, glossed as ‘now’ by Dench, appears not only in present tense but also in past and future clauses. This paper analyses the uses of this clitic and its interactions with tenses at clause level, as well as its role in the wider discourse context. We argue that -rru has temporal and contrastive properties, more specifically that -rru modifies the time of the eventuality denoted and signals a change: it introduces a contra…
The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia
(1982). The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 43-59
A Semantic Type-driven Account of Verb-formation Patterns in Panyjima
In this paper we propose a semantic type-driven account of verb-formation patterns in Panyjima. By offering an explicit theory for the construal of semantically simplex event descriptions from morphologically complex verbal stems, we flesh out intuitions dating back to Clark and Clark (1979) about the role of derivational morphology in the interpretation of derived verbs, especially denominal verbs. This latter point is of particular relevance to…
Kinship and collective activity in the Ngayarda languages of Australia
This paper describes the functions of a verbal derivational suffix found in the Ngayarda languages Panyjima, Martuthunira, Yinyjiparnti, and Kurrama. This suffix, which appears at first blush to be an essentially syntactic device very like the reciprocal suffix found in other Australian languages, may be used to indicate the existence of a particular kin relationship between participants involved in the action described by a verb. The paper prese…
Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Australian Languages
The articles included in this issue of the Australian Journal of Linguistics, along with the article ‘The functions of reported speech and thought in Umpithamu narratives’ by Jean-Christophe Verstr
The historical development of pronoun paradigms in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
This paper presents a detailed account of the changes affecting pronoun paradigms in a sample of thirteen languages of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The reconstruction demonstrates a number of interesting diachronic trends including analogical levelling, the loss and later reintroduction of inclusive/exclusive person categories and the waxing and waning of nominative/ergative case syncretisms. In addition, it appears that many of the c…
Kin terms and pronouns of the Panyjima language of Northwest Western Australia
(1980). Kin terms and pronouns of the Panyjima language of Northwest Western Australia. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 105-120
Kin terms and pronouns of the Panyjima language of Northwest Western Australia
(1980). Kin terms and pronouns of the Panyjima language of Northwest Western Australia. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 105-120
The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia
(1982). The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 43-59
Kinship and collective activity in the Ngayarda languages of Australia
This paper describes the functions of a verbal derivational suffix found in the Ngayarda languages Panyjima, Martuthunira, Yinyjiparnti, and Kurrama. This suffix, which appears at first blush to be an essentially syntactic device very like the reciprocal suffix found in other Australian languages, may be used to indicate the existence of a particular kin relationship between participants involved in the action described by a verb. The paper prese…
Complex Sentences in Martuthunira
Multiple case-marking in Australian languages
The historical development of pronoun paradigms in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
This paper presents a detailed account of the changes affecting pronoun paradigms in a sample of thirteen languages of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The reconstruction demonstrates a number of interesting diachronic trends including analogical levelling, the loss and later reintroduction of inclusive/exclusive person categories and the waxing and waning of nominative/ergative case syncretisms. In addition, it appears that many of the c…
Pidgin Ngarluma
This paper discusses evidence of an early pidgin in use amongst Aboriginal people of the north west coast of Western Australia. The crucial evidence comes from an Italian manuscript describing the rescue, by local Aborigines, of two castaways wrecked on North West Cape in 1875. The data reveals that the local Aborigines attempted to communicate with the Italian-speaking survivors using what appears to be an Australian language spoken some 300 kil…
What is a Ngayarta language? A reply to O'Grady and Laughren
Descent and Diffusion
This chapter presents a case study of a group of Australian languages for which it is especially difficult to determine whether shared innovations are the result of genetic inheritance from a common ancestor or are the result of contact. In the preceding chapter of this volume, Dixon demonstrates the difficulty of determining clear genetic groupings across the Australian continent as a whole. This chapter shows that similar problems of indetermin…
Case Marking Strategies in Subordinate Clauses in Pilbara Languages—Some Diachronic Speculations* I am especially grateful to those people who worked with me in recording information about their langu…
This paper considers possible diachronic explanations for the range of case marking patterns found in subordinate clauses in languages of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. There are two parameters to consider in comparing patterns across the area. First, complements and adjuncts of verbs in dependent clauses may have patterns of case marking different from those of independent finite clauses. Second, nominal suffixes functioning as complem…
Possession in Martuthunira
© Editorial matter and organization Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon 2013 © The chapters their several authors 2013. All rights reserved. This chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of expression of possession and of ownership in Martuthunira, an extinct Australian language, formerly spoken in the Plibara region of Northern Australia. Pertensive, proprietive are employed to express possessive relationships. Genitive is used for some ty…
Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Australian Languages
The articles included in this issue of the Australian Journal of Linguistics, along with the article ‘The functions of reported speech and thought in Umpithamu narratives’ by Jean-Christophe Verstr
A Semantic Type-driven Account of Verb-formation Patterns in Panyjima
In this paper we propose a semantic type-driven account of verb-formation patterns in Panyjima. By offering an explicit theory for the construal of semantically simplex event descriptions from morphologically complex verbal stems, we flesh out intuitions dating back to Clark and Clark (1979) about the role of derivational morphology in the interpretation of derived verbs, especially denominal verbs. This latter point is of particular relevance to…
Now or Then ? The Clitic - rru in Panyjima
The clitic -rru in Panyjima, glossed as ‘now’ by Dench, appears not only in present tense but also in past and future clauses. This paper analyses the uses of this clitic and its interactions with tenses at clause level, as well as its role in the wider discourse context. We argue that -rru has temporal and contrastive properties, more specifically that -rru modifies the time of the eventuality denoted and signals a change: it introduces a contra…
Martuthunira
This thesis is a reference grammar of Martuthunira, an Australian language of the Ngayarda subgroup of Pama-Nyungan, and originally spoken in the locality of the Fortescue River in northwest Western Australia. There are now just three remaining speakers and this thesis is based on the speech of one man - Algy Paterson. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the Martuthunira language and its speakers; the traditional patterns of social organ…
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