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The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics
With nearly 2400 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the exciting advances of the last few years, many of which have not even made it into textbooks yet.
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The Oxford handbook of event structure
This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly. 0The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science, and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards.
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Child-directed Speech in Qaqet
Qaqet is a non-Austronesian language, spoken by about 15,000 people in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In the remote inland, children acquire Qaqet as their first language. Much of what we know about child‑directed speech (CDS) stems from children living in middle‑class, urban, industrialised contexts. This book combines evidence from different methods, showing that the features typical for speech to children in such contexts are also found in Qaqet CDS. Preliminary insights from naturalistic audio recordings suggest that Qaqet children are infrequently addressed directly. In interviews, Qaqet caregivers express the view that children 'pick up' the language on their own. Still, they have clear ideas about how to talk to children in a way that makes it easier for them to understand what is said. In order to compare adult- and child-directed speech in Qaqet, 20 retellings of a film have been analysed, half of them told to adults and half to children. The data show that talk directed to children differs from talk directed to adults for several features, among them utterance type, mean length of utterance, amount of hesitations and intonation. Despite this clear tendency, there seems to be a cut-off point of around 40 months of age for several of those features from which the talk directed to children becomes more like the talk directed to adults.
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Empirical approaches to the phonological structure of words
\"One of the basic grammatical categories in linguistics is the phonological word. But how are words made up in terms of their sounds? And how is the information on the sound structure of words used in the processing of words? This volume brings together scholars interested in the complex relations of the phonological word, applying different empirical approaches.\"-- Back cover.
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Wampar–English Dictionary with an English–Wampar finder list
This ethnographic dictionary is the result of Hans Fischer's
long-term fieldwork among the Wampar, who occupy the middle Markham
Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Their language,
Dzob Wampar, belongs to the Markham family of the Austronesian
languages. Today most Wampar speak not only Wampar but also PNG's
lingua franca, Tok Pisin. Six decades of Wampar research has
documented the extent and speed of change in the region. Today,
mining, migration and the commodification of land are accelerating
the pace of change in Wampar communities, resulting in great
individual differences in knowledge of the vernacular. This
dictionary covers largely forgotten Wampar expressions as well as
loanwords from German and Jabêm that have become part of everyday
language. Most entries contain example sentences from original
Wampar texts. The dictionary is complemented by an overview of
ethnographic research among Wampar, a sketch of Wampar grammar, a
bibliography and an English-to-Wampar finder list.
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Omotic lexicon in its Afro-Asiatic setting VI: Addenda to Omotic roots with ḅ-, ṗ-, p- (or f-)a
The paper is a new contribution to revealing the Afro-Asiatic heritage in the lexicon of the Omotic languages by means of interbranch comparison using a.o. the ancient Egypto-Semitic evidence.
Journal Article
Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic
By challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between
Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancient Egyptian and
Afroasiatic provides a fresh approach to the relationships and
similarities between Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic
languages. This in-depth analysis includes a re-examination of the
methodologies deployed in historical linguistics and comparative
grammar, a morphological study of Ancient Egyptian, and critical
comparisons between Ancient Egyptian and Semitic, as well as
careful considerations of environmental factors and archaeological
evidence. These contributions offer a reassessment of the
Afroasiatic phylum, which is based on the relations between Ancient
Egyptian and the other Afroasiatic branches. This volume
illustrates the advantages of viewing Ancient Egyptian in its
African context.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this collection
include Shiferaw Assefa, Michael Avina, Vit Bubenik, Leo Depuydt,
Christopher Ehret, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, J. Lafayette Gaston,
Tiffany Gleason, John Huehnergard, Andrew Kitchen, Elsa Oréal,
Chelsea Sanker, Lameen Souag, Andréas Stauder, Deven N. Vyas, Aren
Wilson-Wright, and Jean Winand.
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