As the Dyirbal language of Australia nears extinction, its diminishing social function is accompanied by reduction within the linguistic system. If ... and syntactic ergativity demonstrates that decay in terminal Dyirbal involves systematic variation along the continuum. Reduction occurs ... important formal and functional differences exist between dying Dyirbal and a typical pidgin.* This paper investigates structural change in the Dyirbal language of Australia as it approaches extinction. Radical ... 1979). In ? 1, a sociolinguistic sketch of dying Dyirbal is provided. In ?2, 1 deal with the ...
Tópico(s): Language and cultural evolution
1985 - Linguistic Society of America | Language
Lakoff (1987) presents the noun class system of Dyirbal, an indigenous Australian language, as a prototypical example ... belonging to the so-called feminine gender of Dyirbal: women, fire and dangerous things, and suggests that ... the analysis. If the noun category system of Dyirbal is analyzed in terms of potency and harmony, ... to the experience and cognitive needs of the Dyirbal-speaking people than is indicated by Lakoff's analysis. The noun class system of Dyirbal is shown not to be constructed around real- ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
1995 - De Gruyter Mouton | Cognitive Linguistics
ABSTRACT Dyirbal was probably originally spoken by about 5,000 people across its 10 dialects. In 1963, the northern ... to changing language identifications. The writer has seen Dyirbal contract in lexical and grammatical complexity as it ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
1991 - Cambridge University Press | Language in Society
... Marantz' Generalization. Second, it reanalyses syntactic ergativity in Dyirbal. It demonstrates that the language underlyingly has an ... cases. It further shows that syntactic ergativity in Dyirbal is not sensitive to the absolutive, but rather ...
Tópico(s): Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
2011 - Elsevier BV | Lingua
... REUSE on Lakota). Data from the Australian language Dyirbal is supplied in R. M. W. DIXON's ... seven pages, followed by a reconsideration of a Dyirbal construction that he had previously described as 'verb- ...
Tópico(s): Lexicography and Language Studies
2009 - Linguistic Society of America | Language
... in the contiguous Ngajan and Wari dialects of Dyirbal, in North Queensland. The origin of the length ...
Tópico(s): Australian Indigenous Culture and History
1990 - Elsevier BV | Lingua
The Dyirbal‐speaking people of North Queensland, Australia, have an unusual (and possibly unique) kinship system. Marriage takes place ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
1989 - Wiley | Oceania
... Marking in Australian Languages. Barry J. Blake: The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. R. M. W. Dixon: ...
Tópico(s): Language and cultural evolution
1980 - Wiley | American Anthropologist
... antipassives of the kind found in German and Dyirbal, respectively. Two accusative languages, German and Choctaw, and two ergative languages, Dyirbal and Enga, are surveyed, and Choctaw and Enga ...
Tópico(s): Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
1980 - Elsevier BV | Lingua
Preface 1. Australian languages 2. Dyirbal: the language and its speakers 3. word classes 4. Syntax 5. Deep syntax 6. Morphology 7. Phonology 8. Semantics 9. Lexicon ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic Variation and Morphology
1978 - Linguistic Society of America | Language
... constructions can be recognized for the Australian language Dyirbal; all verbs in a serial verb construction agree ...
Tópico(s): Language and cultural evolution
2011 - | Anthropological linguistics
... e.g., Inuit). This article argues that Niuean, Dyirbal, and Nez Perce are also of this object ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2015 - The MIT Press | Linguistic Inquiry
... With a special focus on Australian languages, especially Dyirbal, R. M. W. Dixon discusses comitative and privative ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
2014 - Linguistic Society of America | Language
... This area was at contact occupied by the Dyirbal language group and specifically the Jirrbal, Mamu and ...
Tópico(s): Australian Indigenous Culture and History
2006 - Queensland Museum | Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature
... There is a case study of demonstratives in Dyirbal, and an array of questions which can usefully ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics and language evolution
2003 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Studies in Language
Janet Fletcher, Nicholas Evans,
... work has been carried out, most notably on Dyirbal narratives, many grammars do not include systematic descriptions ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2000 - Taylor & Francis | Australian Journal of Linguistics
... is then extended to two Bantu languages, to Dyirbal, and to Balinese. It is argued that the ...
Tópico(s): Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
1995 - Taylor & Francis | Australian Journal of Linguistics
... syntaxiques ergatives. Alors que des langues comme le dyirbal manifestant une ergativite syntaxique nette sont assez rares, ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
1994 - De Gruyter | Language Typology and Universals
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
1988 - De Gruyter | Linguistics
John Anderson, Angus R. McIntosh,
... and humours (by Cusack, Bridget) 5. Problems in dyirbal dialectology (by Dixon, R.M.W.) 6. The ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics and language evolution
1982 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory
... from four ergative languages (Archi, Enga, Jacaltec and Dyirbal) are examined with regard to these two questions. ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics and language evolution
1981 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Studies in Language
Tópico(s): Children's Physical and Motor Development
1980 - De Gruyter | Linguistics
Tópico(s): Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
1979 - De Gruyter | Linguistics
Tópico(s): Health and Well-being Studies
1979 - De Gruyter | Linguistics
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
1977 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory
... Capell 1940, 1942; Capell & Elkin 1937; Wurm 1972); Dyirbal (Dixon 1968, 1972). African languages: Proto-Bantu (Creider & ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
1977 - Linguistic Society of America | Language
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Tópico(s): Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
2003 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Linguistics in the Netherlands
... group of ‘exceptional’ languages from Proto-Uralic to Dyirbal and most recently, Pirahã, that appear to lack ...
Tópico(s): Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Logic Language and Information
... Aboriginal Studies. Intensive studies were made of the Dyirbal, Giramay, and Mamu languages, and linguistic descriptions of ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
1966 - Cambridge University Press | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
... although they have only one grammar (e.g. Dyirbal, Javanese). There have not been many suggestions for ...
Tópico(s): Lexicography and Language Studies
2013 - De Gruyter | Folia Linguistica