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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ANTTILA, RAIMO,; BAR-ADON, AARON,; BASKAKOV, N. A.,; CAMPBELL, LYLE,; CHEVRETTE, LOUIS A.,; COOK, EUNG-DO,; ELLIS, JEFFREY,; FERNÁNDEZ-GUIZZETTI, GERMÁN,; FRANTZ, DONALD G.,; FÓNAGY, IVAN,; GALARZA, JOAQUÍN,; GREEN, EUGENE,; HASLER, JUAN A.,; HILL, JANE H.,; KELKAR, ASHOK R.,; KOO, JANG H.,; LANDAR, HERBERT,; LAYCOCK, DONALD C.,; LIEM, NGUYEN DANG,; LISTON, JERRY L.,; MAHER, J. PETER,; MAKKAI, ADAM,; MIGLIAZZA, ERNEST C.,; MILLWARD, CELIA M.,; MOLONY, CAROL H.,; McCORMACK, WILLIAM C.,; NEWMEYER, FREDERICK J.,; PATTANAYAK, D. P.,; RAUCH, IRMENGARD,; ROULET, E.,; SAMARIN, WILLIAM J.,; SEN-GUPTA, SUNIL,; TRAUGOTT, ELIZABETH CLOSS,; WALD, LUCIA,; WURM, S. A.,
• HerausgeberIn: McCormack, William C.,; Wurm, Stephen A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 p.) :; 8 maps.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110800036; 9783110636925
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110800036
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack.