The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
Published on 13. June 2023
Book
Hardback
1178 pages
978-0-19-882497-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive and accessible guide to the their vast linguistic diversity. This volume fills that gap, bringing together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide an up-to-date guide to all aspects of the languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology, documentation, and classification; linguistic structures from phonology to pragmatics and discourse; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers grammatical sketches of a selection of languages, sub-groups, and families. At a time when the number of living Australian languages is significantly reduced even compared to twenty year ago, this volume establishes priorities for future linguistic research and contributes to the language expansion and revitalization efforts that are underway.
Reviews / Votes
Bowern and her seventy-six contributors (fifty-five of them based in Australian institutions) masterfully deliver on the book's promise advanced in several thoughtfully detailed introductory chapters exploring both the historical landscape and taxonomies of these languages (both old and new) and the intricacies of documentation methods that aim to preserve them [...] Moreover, the Guide goes the extra mile to correct widespread misconceptions stemming from broad over-generalisations about the capabilities and characteristics of Indigenous languages, ensuring that they are presented in an authentic light and given just representation. * Thomas Poulton, Australian Book Review *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 170 mm
Width: 244 mm
Thickness: 71 mm
Weight
2880 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-882497-8 (9780198824978)
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Claire Bowern
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
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Person
Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
Content
Detailed contents
Series preface
Abbreviations and conventions
The contributors
Language maps
Australian language families and linguistic classifications
Kado Muir: Foreword
1: Claire Bowern: Introduction
Part I: Background
2: Clara Stockigt: A history of the early description of Australian languages
3: Nicholas Thieberger: Documentation of Australian languages
4: Rachel Nordlinger: Australian languages and syntactic theory
5: Luisa Miceli and Claire Bowern: Australian languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the past
6: Clara Stockigt: Nineteenth-century classifications of Australian languages
7: Claire Bowern: How many languages are and were spoken in Australia?
8: John Giacon and Harold Koch: Philological methods for Australian languages
Part II: Structures
A: Phonetics and phonology
9: Marija Tabain: Articulatory and acoustic phonetics
10: Erich R. Round: Segment inventories
11: Erich R. Round: Phonotactics
12: Erich R. Round: Morphophonology: Lenition and assimilation
13: Erich R. Round: Nasal cluster dissimilation
14: Kathleen Jepson and Thomas Ennever: Lexical stress
15: Janet Fletcher: Intonation
16: Barry Alpher: Sound change
B: Morphosyntax
17: Oliver Shoulson: Word classes
18: Dana Louagie: The noun phrase
19: Amalia Skilton: Noun classes
20: Vivien Dunn and Felicity Meakins: Ergativity
21: Jane Simpson: Semantic case
22: Maia Ponsonnet: Possession
23: Dana Louagie: Demonstratives
24: Alice Gaby and Oliver Shoulson: Pronouns
25: Juhyae Kim: Adjectives and adverbs
26: David Osgarby and Claire Bowern: Complex predication and serialization
27: Harold Koch: Conjugation classes
28: Parker Brody: Agreement morphology
29: Erich R. Round and Xavier Bach: Suppletion
30: Stef Spronck: Valency change and causation
31: Alice Gaby: Reflexives and reciprocals
32: James Bednall: Tense and aspect
33: James Bednall: Modality and mood
34: Josh Phillips: Negation
35: Magda Andrews-Hoke and Parker Brody: Word order
36: Juhyae Kim and Claire Bowern: Questions
37: Marie-Elaine van Egmond: Subordination
38: Rachel Hendery: Relative clauses
39: Jessica Denniss: Antipassives
40: Barry Alpher and Claire Bowern: Morphological change
C: Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
41: Margit Bowler and Ivan Kapitonov: Quantification
42: Dorothea Hoffmann: Direction and location
43: Patrick McConvell: Kinship, marriage, and skins
44: Katherine Rosenberg, Jane Simpson, and Claire Bowern: Toponyms
45: Joe Blythe and Ilana Mushin: Discourse and social interaction
46: Francesca Merlan: Narrative
47: Maia Ponsonnet: Interjections
48: Michael Walsh: Insults and compliments
49: Katherine Rosenberg and Claire Bowern: Language names
Part III: Sociolinguistics and language variation
50: Jennifer Green, Inge Kral, and Sally Treloyn: The verbal arts in Indigenous Australia
51: John Mansfield: Sociolinguistic variation
52: Jennifer Green: Australian Indigenous sign languages
53: John Bradley and Alice Gaby: Gender-based dialects
54: Jill Vaughan: Multilingualism
55: Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway: Code-switching
56: Denise Angelo: Language contact
57: Greg Dickson: Kriol
58: Carmel O'Shannessy: Young people's varieties
59: Michael Walsh: Restricted respect registers and auxiliary languages
60: Lucinda Davidson, Barbara Kelly, Gillian Wigglesworth, and Rachel Nordlinger: Language input and child-directed speech
Part IV: Language in the Community
61: Rob Amery: Language policy, planning, and standardization
62: Gillian Wigglesworth and Samantha Disbray: Indigenous children's language practices in Australia
63: Catherine Bow: Technology for Australian languages
64: Maryanne Gale: Language revival
65: Rob Amery and Maryanne Gale: Language, land, identity, and well-being
Part V: Structural sketches of languages, subgroups, and families
66: Denise Angelo: Contact language case studies
67: Nicholas Evans and Alexandra Marley: The Gunwinyguan languages
68: Marie-Elaine van Egmond: Anindilyakwa
69: Stef Spronck: Languages of the Kimberley region
70: Margaret Carew and David Felipe Guerrero Beltran: The Maningrida languages
71: K. Eira: Living languages of Victoria
72: Jean-Christophe Verstraete: Lamalamic (Paman)
73: Margaret Sharpe: The Bandialangic languages and dialects
74: Denise Smith-Ali, Sue Hanson, George Hayden, Claire Bowern, Akshay Aitha, Lydia Ding, and Sarah Mihuc: Noongar
75: Sarah Babinski, Luis-Miguel Rojas-Berscia, and Claire Bowern: The Wati (Western Desert) subgroup of Pama-Nyungan
76: Felicity Meakins, Thomas Ennever, David Osgarby, Mitchell Browne, and Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway: Ngumpin-Yapa languages
77: Doug Marmion: Wajarri
78: Annie Reynolds and Theresa Sainty: The revitalization of the sleeping Tasmanian Aboriginal languages: palawa kani
References
Index
Series preface
Abbreviations and conventions
The contributors
Language maps
Australian language families and linguistic classifications
Kado Muir: Foreword
1: Claire Bowern: Introduction
Part I: Background
2: Clara Stockigt: A history of the early description of Australian languages
3: Nicholas Thieberger: Documentation of Australian languages
4: Rachel Nordlinger: Australian languages and syntactic theory
5: Luisa Miceli and Claire Bowern: Australian languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the past
6: Clara Stockigt: Nineteenth-century classifications of Australian languages
7: Claire Bowern: How many languages are and were spoken in Australia?
8: John Giacon and Harold Koch: Philological methods for Australian languages
Part II: Structures
A: Phonetics and phonology
9: Marija Tabain: Articulatory and acoustic phonetics
10: Erich R. Round: Segment inventories
11: Erich R. Round: Phonotactics
12: Erich R. Round: Morphophonology: Lenition and assimilation
13: Erich R. Round: Nasal cluster dissimilation
14: Kathleen Jepson and Thomas Ennever: Lexical stress
15: Janet Fletcher: Intonation
16: Barry Alpher: Sound change
B: Morphosyntax
17: Oliver Shoulson: Word classes
18: Dana Louagie: The noun phrase
19: Amalia Skilton: Noun classes
20: Vivien Dunn and Felicity Meakins: Ergativity
21: Jane Simpson: Semantic case
22: Maia Ponsonnet: Possession
23: Dana Louagie: Demonstratives
24: Alice Gaby and Oliver Shoulson: Pronouns
25: Juhyae Kim: Adjectives and adverbs
26: David Osgarby and Claire Bowern: Complex predication and serialization
27: Harold Koch: Conjugation classes
28: Parker Brody: Agreement morphology
29: Erich R. Round and Xavier Bach: Suppletion
30: Stef Spronck: Valency change and causation
31: Alice Gaby: Reflexives and reciprocals
32: James Bednall: Tense and aspect
33: James Bednall: Modality and mood
34: Josh Phillips: Negation
35: Magda Andrews-Hoke and Parker Brody: Word order
36: Juhyae Kim and Claire Bowern: Questions
37: Marie-Elaine van Egmond: Subordination
38: Rachel Hendery: Relative clauses
39: Jessica Denniss: Antipassives
40: Barry Alpher and Claire Bowern: Morphological change
C: Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
41: Margit Bowler and Ivan Kapitonov: Quantification
42: Dorothea Hoffmann: Direction and location
43: Patrick McConvell: Kinship, marriage, and skins
44: Katherine Rosenberg, Jane Simpson, and Claire Bowern: Toponyms
45: Joe Blythe and Ilana Mushin: Discourse and social interaction
46: Francesca Merlan: Narrative
47: Maia Ponsonnet: Interjections
48: Michael Walsh: Insults and compliments
49: Katherine Rosenberg and Claire Bowern: Language names
Part III: Sociolinguistics and language variation
50: Jennifer Green, Inge Kral, and Sally Treloyn: The verbal arts in Indigenous Australia
51: John Mansfield: Sociolinguistic variation
52: Jennifer Green: Australian Indigenous sign languages
53: John Bradley and Alice Gaby: Gender-based dialects
54: Jill Vaughan: Multilingualism
55: Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway: Code-switching
56: Denise Angelo: Language contact
57: Greg Dickson: Kriol
58: Carmel O'Shannessy: Young people's varieties
59: Michael Walsh: Restricted respect registers and auxiliary languages
60: Lucinda Davidson, Barbara Kelly, Gillian Wigglesworth, and Rachel Nordlinger: Language input and child-directed speech
Part IV: Language in the Community
61: Rob Amery: Language policy, planning, and standardization
62: Gillian Wigglesworth and Samantha Disbray: Indigenous children's language practices in Australia
63: Catherine Bow: Technology for Australian languages
64: Maryanne Gale: Language revival
65: Rob Amery and Maryanne Gale: Language, land, identity, and well-being
Part V: Structural sketches of languages, subgroups, and families
66: Denise Angelo: Contact language case studies
67: Nicholas Evans and Alexandra Marley: The Gunwinyguan languages
68: Marie-Elaine van Egmond: Anindilyakwa
69: Stef Spronck: Languages of the Kimberley region
70: Margaret Carew and David Felipe Guerrero Beltran: The Maningrida languages
71: K. Eira: Living languages of Victoria
72: Jean-Christophe Verstraete: Lamalamic (Paman)
73: Margaret Sharpe: The Bandialangic languages and dialects
74: Denise Smith-Ali, Sue Hanson, George Hayden, Claire Bowern, Akshay Aitha, Lydia Ding, and Sarah Mihuc: Noongar
75: Sarah Babinski, Luis-Miguel Rojas-Berscia, and Claire Bowern: The Wati (Western Desert) subgroup of Pama-Nyungan
76: Felicity Meakins, Thomas Ennever, David Osgarby, Mitchell Browne, and Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway: Ngumpin-Yapa languages
77: Doug Marmion: Wajarri
78: Annie Reynolds and Theresa Sainty: The revitalization of the sleeping Tasmanian Aboriginal languages: palawa kani
References
Index