Approaches to Language
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Approaches to Language

Anthropological Issues

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Approaches to Language

Anthropological Issues

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Yes, you can access Approaches to Language by William C. McCormack, Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack,Stephen A. Wurm in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Philosophy History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9789027976604
eBook ISBN
9783110800036
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. General Editor’s Preface
  2. Preface
  3. SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTORY
  4. Introduction
  5. SECTION TWO: LANGUAGE SAMENESS: GENETIC, HISTORICAL, AND CONTACT
  6. Generative Approaches to Historical Linguistics
  7. Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin?
  8. Language Death, Language Contact, and Language Evolution
  9. The Languages Within Language: Toward a Paleontological Approach of Verbal Communication
  10. Pidginization, Creolization, and the “Naturalness” Hypothesis
  11. Correlative Linguistics
  12. SECTION THREE: LANGUAGES: AREAS AND INFLUENCES
  13. The Emerging Linguistic Picture and Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwestern Pacific
  14. Quichean Linguistics and Philology
  15. Morphemes of Southern Quechua and Their Influence on Spanish
  16. Unstudied Ethnographic Areas of the Sepik Basin, New Guinea
  17. The Aztec System of Writing: Problems of Research
  18. SECTION FOUR: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND SYSTEMS
  19. Clauses and Cases in Southeast Asian Languages and Thought
  20. Identification and Grammatical Structure in Akan and Welsh
  21. Abstractness of Phonology and Blackfoot Orthography Design
  22. Pragmo-Ecological Grammar (PEG): Toward a New Synthesis of Linguistics and Anthropology
  23. Common Cognitive Elements in Combined Verbs (Bengali, Khmer, Bahasa Indonesian, and Vietnamese)
  24. Linguistic Anthropology and the Innatist Fallacy
  25. SECTION FIVE: LEXICON, SEMANTICS, AND FUNCTION
  26. Linguistic Reconstruction and History
  27. Lexical Change in Philippine Creole Spanish
  28. Semantic Categories in the Names of Algonquian Waterways
  29. The Aztec Day Names
  30. The Intransitive Marker “t” in Eskimo
  31. “Stone,” “Hammer,” and “Heaven” in Indo-European Languages and Cosmology
  32. England, and France: An Essay on Historical Lexicography
  33. Structural Analysis of Terms for Parts of the Body in Serbo-Croatian
  34. SECTION SIX: LANGUAGE: SOCIAL FACTORS AND SETTING
  35. Socioeconomic Factors in Language Split: The Case of the Lapp “Dialects” versus the Baltic-Finnic “Languages”
  36. On the Role of Children in the Revival of Hebrew
  37. The Extent of Multilayer Influences on the Gagauz Language
  38. Yanomama Diglossia
  39. Prescriptive Grammar: A Reappraisal
  40. Linguistic Adaptation to Speech Function
  41. Language Competence and Culture Transmission
  42. The Ethnography of Communication and the Teaching of Languages
  43. SECTION SEVEN: DISCUSSION
  44. Summary of Discussion
  45. Biographical Notes
  46. Index of Names
  47. Index of Subjects