Approaches to Language : : Anthropological Issues / / ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy <1990 |
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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
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (672 p.) :; 8 maps. |
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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 |
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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. |