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Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University) ,
R.M.W. Dixon (, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Volume: 4
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780199556465
ISBN 10: 0199556466
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 13 November 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Aikhenvald's numerous publications, study, and research are evident in this edited collection...Its descriptive approach with an underlying functional explanation of language contact principles makes it a readable collection of well-edited articles on language contact. Mayrene Bentley, Linguist List ...an excellent contribution of top quality empirical work to the burgeoning literature on language contact and its long-term effects on linguistic systems. N. J. Enfield Studies in Language an impressive book...an important contribution to the study of languages in contact. Rolf Theil Languages in Contrast ...this volume can be recommended to all those interested in typology and language contact. Gisella Ferraresi Folia Linguistica
Aikhenvald's numerous publications, study, and research are evident in this edited collection...Its descriptive approach with an underlying functional explanation of language contact principles makes it a readable collection of well-edited articles on language contact. Mayrene Bentley, Linguist List ...an excellent contribution of top quality empirical work to the burgeoning literature on language contact and its long-term effects on linguistic systems. N. J. Enfield Studies in Language an impressive book...an important contribution to the study of languages in contact. Rolf Theil Languages in Contrast ...this volume can be recommended to all those interested in typology and language contact. Gisella Ferraresi Folia Linguistica
Author Information
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on typological and areal features of South American languages, particularly of the Arawak family: Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker, who has since died), Warekena (1998), and Tariana (2003). Her monographs include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004), and The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2008). R.M.W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (2004) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2005). His works on typological theory include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? and Other Essays (1982) and Ergativity (1994). His essay The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997) expounded a punctuated equilibrium model for language development which is the basis for his detailed case study Australian Languages: their Nature and Development (2002). He is currently working on an extensive study of the basic linguistic theory.
