Approaches to Language

Anthropological Issues

William C. McCormack, Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack, Stephen A. Wurm

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9789027976604
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110800036
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

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Table of contents

• 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
• 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