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.

Table of 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