Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell [edited] by S. A. Wurm and D. C. Laycock
- Bib ID:
- 2511301
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- [Canberra, Linguistic Circle of Canberra, 1970]
- x, 1292, 6 p. diagrs., maps, port., tables. 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0858830051
- Series:
- Pacific linguistics. Series C ; no. 13.
- Summary:
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Lists contributors and their affiliations; includes A.P. Elkin - Arthur Capell; S.A. Wurm - Arthur Capell as linguist; Nils M. Holmer - Traces of Australian-Amerindian morpheme categories in east Asia; Richard Pittman and Harland Kerr - Dominance and recessiveness in grammatical structure; M.C. Sharpe - Voice quality; a suggested framework for description and some observations; Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt - Time for relaxation; J.E. Bolt, J.R. Cleverly and W.G. Hoddinott Pronominalisation in Djamindjungan C.G. von Brandeinstein - Portuguese loan-words in Aboriginal languages of north-western Australia (a problem of Indo-European and Finno-Ugrian comparative linguistics); R.M.W. Dixon - Languages of the Cairns rain forest region; Wilfrid H. Douglas Transemics; A.P. Elkin - The Aborigines of Australia; one in thought, word and deed; E.H. Flint - The influence of prosodic patterns upon the mutual intelligibility of Aboriginal and General Australian English; Marie Godfrey - Wik-Munkan verb morphology; Kenneth Hale - The passive and ergative in language change; the Australian case; Joy Harris - Gunkurrng, a motherin-law language; Henry Hershberger and Eunice V. Pike - Stress as related to the grammar of Gugu-Yalanji; Ruth Hershberger Sentence types in Gugu-Yalanji; Jean F. Kirton Twelve pronominal sets in Yanyula; Geoffrey N. OGrady - Nyangumarda conjugations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- Subject:
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- Austronesian languages
- Australian languages
- New Guinea -- Languages
- Yanyuwa / Yanuwa people (N153) (NT SE53-04)
- Kuku Yalanji / Gugu Yalandji language (Y78) (Qld SD55-13)
- Nyangumarta / Nyangumarda people (A61) (WA SF51-10)
- Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax
- Indigenous peoples - North America
- Language - English - Aboriginal English
- Family - Mothers in law
- Yanyuwa / Yanuwa language (N153) (NT SE53-04)
- Language
- Jaminjung / Djaminjung language (N18) (NT SD52-15)
- Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Nouns and ergatives
- Kuku Yalanji / Gugu Yalandji people (Y78) (Qld SD55-13)
- Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Pronouns
- Wik Mungkan language (Y57, Y143) (Qld SD54-07)
- Jaminjung / Djaminjung people (N18) (NT SD52-15)
- Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Verbs
- Nyangumarta / Nyangumarda language (A61) (WA SF51-10)
- Wik Mungkan people (Y57) (Qld SD54-07)
- South Australia (SA)
- Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Asia
- Western Australia (WA)
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