Projecting Voices : Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honour of Jane Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Shannessy, Carmel.

Series:

Asia-Pacific Linguistics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simpson, Jane.

Australian languages.

Endangered languages.

Local Subjects:

Simpson, Jane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra : ANU Press, 2025.

Summary:

This volume provides cutting-edge research on a wide range of questions in linguistics research, mostly centred on Australian Indigenous languages.

Contents:

Intro

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Section 1: Big picture challenges to theory

1. Experiencer object constructions in Nen (Yam, Papuan)

2. Adventures in distributed exponence

3. Wiping the table clean: What resultatives and complex predicates tell us about the nature of primary and secondary predication

4. An unusual English resultative construction

5. Ancient resultatives: 'Something there that wasn't there before'

6. Argument coding and clause linkage in Australian Aboriginal languages

7. Transdisciplinarising the concept of homology: From biology to linguistics and other domains

Section 2: Language through time

8. Initial dropping and pre-stopping: Boundary marking in Australian languages

9. The multiple functions of the Pama-Nyungan suffix(es) *‑karra

10. Tracking a 'novel' first person subject pronoun within Pama-Nyungan: From north-west Queensland to the Western Australian coast

11. Reconstruction patterns in Pama-Nyungan clusivity

Section 3: Linguistic structures

12. Cardinal direction enclitics in the Flinders Island Language, Cape York Peninsula

13. The path from cliticised to prefixed person marking in proto-Australian

14. Grammatical case and differential argument marking in Anindilyakwa

15. The mysterious clitic =ju in Warlpiri: Topic marker, focus marker or something else?

16. Word order flexibility in Pitjantjatjara

17. Word structure and word formation in Western Yugur

18. The emergence of grammatical structure from inter-predictability

Section 4: Lexicon

19. Avoiding semantic trespass and etyma-larceny: Collaborative lexicography for under-resourced languages: An example from Vanuatu

20. Where strange words fit: Channelling Alice Duncan‑Kemp

21. Dismembering gender: Noun borrowing between Garrwa and Yanyuwa.

Section 5: Language acquisition

22. Arrernte children's linguistic construction of motion events: Exploring the use of Associated Motion

23. The variable expression of possession in Alyawarr children's language repertoires

24. Are you my mother? Learning to discern who's who within a universal kinship system

Section 6: Languages in education

25. Learning to read and write Aboriginal languages through phonics in the Northern Territory

26. Teaching revival languages at universities

27. Partnering in teaching 'strong' Aboriginal languages at universities

Section 7: Sociocultural perspectives

28. The moon travels east

29. An example of rich language documentation: A return to the Old Mission

30. Ngurunderi's wives: Implications for language and cultural revival

31. Language documentation and the multi-dimensionality of capacity building: Framing research diversity in an Indonesian ethno-ecological context

32. My country, my language?

33. A Dharug perspective on the Dharug language ecology

34. Steady as she goes: Jane Simpson and Indigenous languages

Tabula gratulatoria.

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ISBN:

9781760467067

OCLC:

1545872304