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Lexical and Structural Etymology : Beyond Word Histories / ed. by Robert Mailhammer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; 11Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (324 p.) : Num. figs., tabs. and mapsContent type:
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  • 9781614510598
  • 9781614510581
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420
LOC classification:
  • PL7009 .L49 2013
  • P321 .L49 2013
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contact details and affiliations of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Etymology beyond word histories -- Towards a framework of contact etymology -- Obscure vs. transparent cognates in linguistic reconstruction -- The etymology of a paradigm: the Pama-Nyungan 3SgF reconsidered -- Constructional etymology: The sources of relative clauses -- Concerning myself -- Granny got cross: semantic change of kami ‘mother’s mother’ to ‘father’s mother’ in Pama-Nyungan -- Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu -- Markers of the spirit world in Oceanic languages -- Etymology of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay bird names -- The smuggled budgie: case study of an Australian loanblend -- Archaisms in placenames in Arabana- Wangkangurru country -- Subject index
Summary: Traditionally, etymology is concerned with the study of lexical items. However, in this book etymology is understood more generally as a research approach concerned with the question of how a particular word or structure came into existence. As a result, etymology can investigate the origin of words (lexical etymology) but also structural elements, such as morphemes and constructions (structural etymology). This pioneer volume assembles thirteen etymological studies over a broad range of languages, ranging from Europe to Australia and the Pacific, focusing in particular on Australian Indigenous languages. The phenomena investigated in the contributions comprise the origin of Australian Indigenous place names and kinship terms, constructions and word histories in Oceanic languages, typological investigations as well as papers on the methodology of etymological research. This volume is intended for a scholarly audience including intermediate and advanced university students with an interest in historical linguistic, especially in etymology, but also semantics, toponymy and language contact.
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Frontmatter -- Contact details and affiliations of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Etymology beyond word histories -- Towards a framework of contact etymology -- Obscure vs. transparent cognates in linguistic reconstruction -- The etymology of a paradigm: the Pama-Nyungan 3SgF reconsidered -- Constructional etymology: The sources of relative clauses -- Concerning myself -- Granny got cross: semantic change of kami ‘mother’s mother’ to ‘father’s mother’ in Pama-Nyungan -- Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu -- Markers of the spirit world in Oceanic languages -- Etymology of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay bird names -- The smuggled budgie: case study of an Australian loanblend -- Archaisms in placenames in Arabana- Wangkangurru country -- Subject index

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Traditionally, etymology is concerned with the study of lexical items. However, in this book etymology is understood more generally as a research approach concerned with the question of how a particular word or structure came into existence. As a result, etymology can investigate the origin of words (lexical etymology) but also structural elements, such as morphemes and constructions (structural etymology). This pioneer volume assembles thirteen etymological studies over a broad range of languages, ranging from Europe to Australia and the Pacific, focusing in particular on Australian Indigenous languages. The phenomena investigated in the contributions comprise the origin of Australian Indigenous place names and kinship terms, constructions and word histories in Oceanic languages, typological investigations as well as papers on the methodology of etymological research. This volume is intended for a scholarly audience including intermediate and advanced university students with an interest in historical linguistic, especially in etymology, but also semantics, toponymy and language contact.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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