Author: Barry Alpher
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110126822
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Yir-Yoront/English dictionary, with English index; notes on phonology and orthography, grammatical categories, semantics and taxonomy, kin terms, respect vocabulary, lists of plants, birds with Latin and Yir-Yoront terms.
Yir-Yoront Lexicon
Author: Barry Alpher
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110126822
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Yir-Yoront/English dictionary, with English index; notes on phonology and orthography, grammatical categories, semantics and taxonomy, kin terms, respect vocabulary, lists of plants, birds with Latin and Yir-Yoront terms.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110126822
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Yir-Yoront/English dictionary, with English index; notes on phonology and orthography, grammatical categories, semantics and taxonomy, kin terms, respect vocabulary, lists of plants, birds with Latin and Yir-Yoront terms.
A Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka
Author: Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614519005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614519005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material.
Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole
Author: Jones E. Mondesir
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110877260
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110877260
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
A Dictionary of Morrobolam
Author: Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111399974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Morrobolam is a Lamalamic (Paman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111399974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Morrobolam is a Lamalamic (Paman
The Work and the Gift
Author: Scott Cutler Shershow
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226752577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Considers how, in a wide range of western culture and thought, the ideas of working and giving remain locked in a fatal dilemma, each one representing the other's aspirations and absolute limit. Ranging from Marx and Derrida to Friedrich Hayek and Alvin Toffler, Scott Cutler Shershow here explores the predictions of political thinkers on both the left and the right that work is fundamentally changing, or even disappearing; the debates among anthropologists and historians about an archaic gift-economy that preceded capitalism and might reemerge in its wake; contemporary political battles over charity and social welfare; and attempts by modern and postmodern artists to destabilize the work of art as we know it".--BOOKJACKET.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226752577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Considers how, in a wide range of western culture and thought, the ideas of working and giving remain locked in a fatal dilemma, each one representing the other's aspirations and absolute limit. Ranging from Marx and Derrida to Friedrich Hayek and Alvin Toffler, Scott Cutler Shershow here explores the predictions of political thinkers on both the left and the right that work is fundamentally changing, or even disappearing; the debates among anthropologists and historians about an archaic gift-economy that preceded capitalism and might reemerge in its wake; contemporary political battles over charity and social welfare; and attempts by modern and postmodern artists to destabilize the work of art as we know it".--BOOKJACKET.
Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads
Author: Antonio Barcelona
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110175561
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Barcelona (English, U. of Murcia, Spain) has collected 17 essays by 18 contributors (no information provided) that place the cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy at a crossroads in at least three senses. First, because the theory is at a turning point, partially indicated by increased concern with the nature of metonymy, usually a neglected area. Second, because of the interaction between metaphor and metonymy which meet at conceptual and linguistic crossroads. Third, because the cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy is exhibiting new tendencies like the study of the metaphorical motivation of crosslinguistic patterns of lexical semantic change, the metonymic motivation of grammar, and the study of metaphor and metonymy in advertising and conversation. Written for those with advanced tropical knowledge. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110175561
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Barcelona (English, U. of Murcia, Spain) has collected 17 essays by 18 contributors (no information provided) that place the cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy at a crossroads in at least three senses. First, because the theory is at a turning point, partially indicated by increased concern with the nature of metonymy, usually a neglected area. Second, because of the interaction between metaphor and metonymy which meet at conceptual and linguistic crossroads. Third, because the cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy is exhibiting new tendencies like the study of the metaphorical motivation of crosslinguistic patterns of lexical semantic change, the metonymic motivation of grammar, and the study of metaphor and metonymy in advertising and conversation. Written for those with advanced tropical knowledge. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
What Anthropologists Do
Author: Veronica Strang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000190315
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more.Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged subject that seeks to understand human social behaviour. What Anthropologists Do presents a lively introduction to the ways in which anthropology's unique research methods and cutting-edge thinking contribute to a very wide range of fields: environmental issues, aid and development, advocacy, human rights, social policy, the creative arts, museums, health, education, crime, communications technology, design, marketing, and business. In short, a training in Anthropology provides highly transferable skills of investigation and analysis.The book will be ideal for any readers who want to know what Anthropology is all about and especially for students coming to the study of Anthropology for the first time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000190315
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more.Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged subject that seeks to understand human social behaviour. What Anthropologists Do presents a lively introduction to the ways in which anthropology's unique research methods and cutting-edge thinking contribute to a very wide range of fields: environmental issues, aid and development, advocacy, human rights, social policy, the creative arts, museums, health, education, crime, communications technology, design, marketing, and business. In short, a training in Anthropology provides highly transferable skills of investigation and analysis.The book will be ideal for any readers who want to know what Anthropology is all about and especially for students coming to the study of Anthropology for the first time.
Skin, Kin and Clan
Author: Patrick McConvell
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.
Adjective Classes
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191533793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the nature and classification of adjectives and sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation. Thirteen chapters then explore adjective classes in languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Studies of well-known languages such as Russian, Japanese, Korean and Lao are juxtaposed with the languages of small hunter-gatherer and slash-and-burn agriculturalist groups. All are based on fine-grained field research. The nature and typology of adjective classes are then reconsidered in the conclusion. This pioneering work shows, among other things, that the grammatical properties of the adjective class may be similar to nouns or verbs or both or neither; that some languages have two kinds of adjectives, one hard to distinguish from nouns and the other from verbs; that the adjective class can sometimes be large and open, and in other cases small and closed. The book will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology and of the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Each book in this series focuses on an aspect of language that is of current theoretical interest and for which there has not previously or recently been any full-scale cross-linguistic study. The series is for typologists, fieldworkers, and theory developers at graduate level and above. The books will be suited for use as the basis for advanced seminars and courses. The subjects of next three volumes will be serial verb constructions, complementation, and grammars in contact.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191533793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the nature and classification of adjectives and sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation. Thirteen chapters then explore adjective classes in languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Studies of well-known languages such as Russian, Japanese, Korean and Lao are juxtaposed with the languages of small hunter-gatherer and slash-and-burn agriculturalist groups. All are based on fine-grained field research. The nature and typology of adjective classes are then reconsidered in the conclusion. This pioneering work shows, among other things, that the grammatical properties of the adjective class may be similar to nouns or verbs or both or neither; that some languages have two kinds of adjectives, one hard to distinguish from nouns and the other from verbs; that the adjective class can sometimes be large and open, and in other cases small and closed. The book will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology and of the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Each book in this series focuses on an aspect of language that is of current theoretical interest and for which there has not previously or recently been any full-scale cross-linguistic study. The series is for typologists, fieldworkers, and theory developers at graduate level and above. The books will be suited for use as the basis for advanced seminars and courses. The subjects of next three volumes will be serial verb constructions, complementation, and grammars in contact.
Archaeology and Language I
Author: Roger Blench
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134828764
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Tackles new ground of looking at linguistics and archaeology together No other book covers this area Attractive to wide range of fields, i.e. from linguistics to primate biology
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134828764
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Tackles new ground of looking at linguistics and archaeology together No other book covers this area Attractive to wide range of fields, i.e. from linguistics to primate biology