Language contact and documentation
by Comrie, Bernard Golluscio, Lucía
The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology. The publication is the outcome of a fruitful theoretical and methodological exchange between Latin American scholars and international scholars working in other regions. Most of the papers target Latin American languages. Additionally, new insight into the contact situations in Indonesia, Iran, Australia and Papua New Guinea is provided.
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- Full title :Language contact and documentation / edited by Bernard Comrie and Lucía Golluscio.
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The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology. The publication is the outcome of a fruitful theoretical and methodological exchange between Latin American scholars and international scholars working in other regions. Most of the papers target Latin American languages. Additionally, new insight into the contact situations in Indonesia, Iran, Australia and Papua New Guinea is provided.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter, Mouton
- Place of Publication:Berlin, Germany
- Language:ger
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (380 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783110393552, 3110393557, 9783110317473, 3110317478, 3110317060, 9783110317060, 9783110555370, 3110555379
- DOI:10.1515/9783110317473
- oclc:ocn903965725
- LC Classification:P130.52.L29
- Dewey Decimal:306.44098
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; List of authors; I Introduction; II Overview: La documentación lingüística; South America; 1 Nombres propios, denominación e identidad entre los pilagá y los wichí (Gran Chaco); 2 Huellas de trayectorias y contactos en el sistema lingüístico: el caso vilela (Chaco); 3 Tetsualü: The pluralism of languages and people in the Upper Xingu; 4 El Chaco como área lingüística: una evaluación de los rasgos fonológicos; 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down? The case of the Guaporé-Mamoré
6 Seguimiento referencial en lenguas sudamericanas: mecanismos sintácticos/pragmáticos y distribución geográficaBeyond; 7 Una historia de muchas lenguas: la documentación de la narrativa políglota en las tradiciones orales del norte de Australia; 8 Putting oral narratives into writing -- experiences from a language documentation project in Bouganville, Papua New Guinea; 9 An introduction to the Atlas of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area; Author index; Language index; Subject index.
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