Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders

Studies in Dyirbal, Yidiñ, and Warrgamay

AvR. M. W Dixon

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This book builds on R. M. W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing grammar of Dyirbal published in 1972 to later grammars of Yidiñ (1971) and Warrgamay (1981). Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders includes further studies on these languages, and the interrelations between them. Following an account of the anthropological and linguistic background, Part I provides a thorough examination of, and comparison between, the gender system in Dyirbal (one of whose members refers to 'edible vegetables') and the set of nominal classifiers in Yidiñ. The chapters in Part II describe Dyirbal's unusual kinship system and the 'mother-in-law' language style, and examines the origins of 'mother-in-law' vocabulary in Dyirbal and in Yidiñ. There are four grammatical studies in Part III, dealing with syntactic orientation, serial verb constructions, complementation strategies, and grammatical reanalysis. Part IV covers grammatical and lexical variation across the dialects of Dyirbal, compensatory phonological changes, and a study of language contact across the Cairns rainforest region. The two final chapters, in Part V, recount the sad stories of how the Yidiñ and Dyirbal languages slowly slipped into oblivion.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-16
Mått:156 x 233 x 19 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198864202

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R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011), and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP, 2005). His theoretical works include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? And other Essays on Semantics and Syntax (De Gruyter, 1982), Ergativity (CUP, 1994), the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12), and most recently Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (OUP 2014).

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1: Background Part I: Genders and Classifiers 2: Edible and the other genders in Dyirbal 3: Classifiers in Yidiñ Part II: Kin Relations and How to Talk with Them 4: The Dyirbal kinship system 5: Jalnguy, the 'mother-in-law' speech style in Dyirbal 6: The origin of 'mother-in-law' vocabulary in Dyirbal and Yidiñ Part III: Grammatical Studies 7: Comparing the syntactic orientations of Dyirbal and Yidi 8: Serial verb constructions in Dyirbal 9: Complementation strategies in Dyirbal 10: Grammatical reanalysis in Warrgamay Part IV: Variation, Contact, and Change 11: Dyirbal grammar: Variation across dialects 12: Dyirbal dialectology: Lexical Variation 13: Compensatory phonological changes 14: A study of language contact Part V: Languages Fading Away 15: The last change in Yidiñ 16: The gradual decline of Dyirbal Acknowledgements References Index

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