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Approaches to Language : Anthropological Issues / ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1978Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (672 p.) : 8 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027976604
  • 9783110800036
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410
LOC classification:
  • P21 .I56 1973
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE Introductory -- Introduction -- SECTION TWO Language Sameness: Genetic, Historical, and Contact -- Generative Approaches to Historical Linguistics -- Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin? -- Language Death, Language Contact, and Language Evolution -- The Languages Within Language: Toward a Paleontological Approach of Verbal Communication -- Pidginization, Creolization, and the "Naturalness" Hypothesis -- Correlative Linguistics -- SECTION THREE Languages: Areas and Influences -- The Emerging Linguistic Picture and Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwestern Pacific -- Quichean Linguistics and Philology -- Morphemes of Southern Quechua and Their Influence on Spanish -- Unstudied Ethnographic Areas of the Sepik Basin, New Guinea -- The Aztec System of Writing: Problems of Research -- SECTION FOUR Language, Thought, and Systems -- Clauses and Cases in Southeast Asian Languages and Thought -- Identification and Grammatical Structure in Akan and Welsh -- Abstractness of Phonology and Blackfoot Orthography Design -- Pragmo-Ecological Grammar (PEG): Toward a New Synthesis of Linguistics and Anthropology -- Common Cognitive Elements in Combined Verbs (Bengali, Khmer, Bahasa Indonesian, and Vietnamese) -- Linguistic Anthropology and the Innatist Fallacy -- SECTION FIVE Lexicon, Semantics, and Function -- Linguistic Reconstruction and History -- Lexical Change in Philippine Creole Spanish -- Semantic Categories in the Names of Algonquian Waterways -- The Aztec Day Names -- The Intransitive Marker "t" in Eskimo -- "Stone," "Hammer" and "Heaven" in Indo-European Languages and Cosmology -- Francois-Xavier Garneau, England, and France: An Essay on Historical Lexicography -- Structural Analysis of Terms for Parts of the Body in Serbo-Croatian -- SECTION SIX Language: Social Factors and Setting -- Socioeconomic Factors in Language Split: The Case of the Lapp "Dialects" versus the Baltic-Finnic "Languages" -- On the Role of Children in the Revival of Hebrew -- The Extent of Multilayer Influences on the Gagauz Language -- Yanomama Diglossia -- Prescriptive Grammar: A Reappraisal -- Linguistic Adaptation to Speech Function -- Language Competence and Culture Transmission -- The Ethnography of Communication and the Teaching of Languages -- SECTION SEVEN Discussion -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE Introductory -- Introduction -- SECTION TWO Language Sameness: Genetic, Historical, and Contact -- Generative Approaches to Historical Linguistics -- Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin? -- Language Death, Language Contact, and Language Evolution -- The Languages Within Language: Toward a Paleontological Approach of Verbal Communication -- Pidginization, Creolization, and the "Naturalness" Hypothesis -- Correlative Linguistics -- SECTION THREE Languages: Areas and Influences -- The Emerging Linguistic Picture and Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwestern Pacific -- Quichean Linguistics and Philology -- Morphemes of Southern Quechua and Their Influence on Spanish -- Unstudied Ethnographic Areas of the Sepik Basin, New Guinea -- The Aztec System of Writing: Problems of Research -- SECTION FOUR Language, Thought, and Systems -- Clauses and Cases in Southeast Asian Languages and Thought -- Identification and Grammatical Structure in Akan and Welsh -- Abstractness of Phonology and Blackfoot Orthography Design -- Pragmo-Ecological Grammar (PEG): Toward a New Synthesis of Linguistics and Anthropology -- Common Cognitive Elements in Combined Verbs (Bengali, Khmer, Bahasa Indonesian, and Vietnamese) -- Linguistic Anthropology and the Innatist Fallacy -- SECTION FIVE Lexicon, Semantics, and Function -- Linguistic Reconstruction and History -- Lexical Change in Philippine Creole Spanish -- Semantic Categories in the Names of Algonquian Waterways -- The Aztec Day Names -- The Intransitive Marker "t" in Eskimo -- "Stone," "Hammer" and "Heaven" in Indo-European Languages and Cosmology -- Francois-Xavier Garneau, England, and France: An Essay on Historical Lexicography -- Structural Analysis of Terms for Parts of the Body in Serbo-Croatian -- SECTION SIX Language: Social Factors and Setting -- Socioeconomic Factors in Language Split: The Case of the Lapp "Dialects" versus the Baltic-Finnic "Languages" -- On the Role of Children in the Revival of Hebrew -- The Extent of Multilayer Influences on the Gagauz Language -- Yanomama Diglossia -- Prescriptive Grammar: A Reappraisal -- Linguistic Adaptation to Speech Function -- Language Competence and Culture Transmission -- The Ethnography of Communication and the Teaching of Languages -- SECTION SEVEN Discussion -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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