Morphology and language history
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| ISBN-13 | 9789027248145 |
| Open Library | OL18758811W |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2008 - 2008 |
| Language | EN |
This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.
Morphology and language history
This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new chall…
The origin of conjugation markers in Australian languages
In this paper, I compare two approaches to the reconstruction of verbal paradigms in Australian languages. The immediate point at issue is illustrated by the Guugu Yimidhirr conjugational system
The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs
The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs differs markedly from everyday speech. Early research on Aboriginal song texts suggested that the differences between speech and song were insurmountable. In 1886 F.J. Gillen, the postmaster at Alice Springs who was familiar with the Arrernte language, stated:‘What about the words’ etc, I have never yet been able to find out the meaning of any of their Arunta chants and I am doubtful whether the…
Grand-daddy morphs
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Morphology and language history
This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new chall…
The origin of conjugation markers in Australian languages
In this paper, I compare two approaches to the reconstruction of verbal paradigms in Australian languages. The immediate point at issue is illustrated by the Guugu Yimidhirr conjugational system
The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs
The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs differs markedly from everyday speech. Early research on Aboriginal song texts suggested that the differences between speech and song were insurmountable. In 1886 F.J. Gillen, the postmaster at Alice Springs who was familiar with the Arrernte language, stated:‘What about the words’ etc, I have never yet been able to find out the meaning of any of their Arunta chants and I am doubtful whether the…
Grand-daddy morphs