Download or read book Verb First written by Andrew Carnie and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.

Download or read book Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions written by Georgia Curran and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions: Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change explores endangered forms of performance from across the world, and the aspirations of practitioners, community members and researchers to keep these traditions going. Readers are provided with an ethnographically rich focus on specific performance contexts in diverse cultural worlds, including case studies that cover: Irish traditional song, ritual performances from southern India, Aboriginal ceremonial songs from northern and central Australia, Latin Catholic rites in multicultural Australia, and Asian-Portuguese syncretic dance in Sri Lanka. With contributors who are all scholars and/or practitioners of music, dance and other temporal arts, this book offers an inside view on the importance of these traditions for peoples' expressions of their distinct cultural identities and assertions of their uniqueness. Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions contains essential insights into musical cultures in the context of continuity and change, and will be of interest to researchers and postgraduates of ethnomusicology, anthropology, performance studies and Asian studies, as well as music historians and practitioners, and musicians and culture bearers across the world.

Download or read book Forty Years on written by Jane Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language in Australia written by Suzanne Romaine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguists and non-linguists will find in this volume a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia.

Download or read book Warlpiri English Vocabulary written by Kenneth Locke Hale and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared for use in the Yuendumu Warlpiri language programme; Pt.I; Grammatical inventories; Pt.II; Vocabulary.

Download or read book Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs written by Georgia Curran and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warlpiri songs hold together the ceremonies that structure and bind social relationships, and encode detailed information about Warlpiri country, cosmology and kinship. Today, only a small group of the oldest generations has full knowledge of ceremonial songs and their associated meanings, and there is widespread concern about the transmission of these songs to future generations. While musical and cultural change is normal, threats to attrition driven by large-scale external forces including sedentarisation and modernisation put strain on the systems of social relationships that have sustained Warlpiri cultures for millennia. Despite these concerns, songs remain key to Warlpiri identity and cultural heritage. Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs draws together insights from senior Warlpiri singers and custodians of these song traditions, profiling a number of senior singers and their views of the changes that they have witnessed over their lifetimes. The chapters in this book are written by Warlpiri custodians in collaboration with researchers who have worked in Warlpiri communities over the last five decades. Spanning interdisciplinary perspectives including musicology, linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, dance ethnography and gender studies, chapters range from documentation of well-known and large-scale Warlpiri ceremonies, to detailed analysis of smaller-scale public rituals and the motivations behind newer innovative forms of ceremonial expression. Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs ultimately uncovers the complexity entailed in maintaining the vital components of classical Warlpiri singing practices and the deep desires that Warlpiri people have to maintain this important element of their cultural identity into the future.

Download or read book Australian Aboriginal Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Morphologie Morphology 1 Halbband written by Geert E. Booij and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "MORPHOLOGY (BOOIJ ET AL.) 1.TLBD HSK 17.1 E-BOOK".

Download or read book Warlpiri Grammar written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grammar of the Wailbri Language of Central Australia written by Laurie Reece and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Area where spoken (including Yuendumu, Papunya, Hooker Creek & Warrabri), general comments (vowels & vowel harmony, stress, intonation, word length), orthography, syllable system, useful expressions for early use (c.100 items), some common nouns (c.50); near similar sounds with examples (c.60), notes on psychic side of Aboriginal life, vocabulary of physical conditions (c.140 items), skin names, relationships & marriage rules explained; sentence types, verb classes, vowel harmony, pronouns, auxiliary particles, noun & pronoun declension, indirect object, adjectives (c.100 vocabulary items), examples of their use, extending, changing & modifying verb, prohibitives, negative & affirmative, question, emphasis, modifiers, numbers, duplication, idioms, artifacts (list with explanations, includes body decorations & ritual objects), ceremonial terms (initiation, love magic, names of corroborees), text of 5 Wailbri stories with interlinear free translations, abbreviations, marriage groups.

Download or read book Anangu Way written by Healthy Aboriginal Life Team and published by Nganampa Health. This book was released on 1991 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Warlpiri yimi kuja karlipa wangka written by Stephen Swartz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warlpiri language dictionary arranged alphabetically from Warlpiri to English.

Download or read book Language Universals and Variation written by Mengistu Amberber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist Program, Lexical Functional Grammar and Optimality Theory. A wide range of languages and language families are considered, including Amharic, Arabic, Bantu, Berber, Chamorro, English, French, Japanese, Malyalam, Polish, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, and Warlpiri. This is an important addition to the growing body of literature on language universals and variation from formal theoretical perspectives. It will be a useful reference to linguistics specialists and other cognitive scientists. The topics covered are also diverse, ranging from pronominal clitic variation in dialects of Spanish to passives in Bantu and Polish and the typology of Wh-in-situ questions and vowel place constraints.

Download or read book Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia written by Adam Kendon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 book was the first full-length study ever to be published on the subject of sign language as a means of communication among Australian Aborigines. Based on fieldwork conducted over a span of nine years, the volume presents a thorough analysis of the structure of sign languages and their relationship to spoken languages.

Download or read book Warlpiri Karnta Karnta Kurlangu Yimi written by Georgina Napangardi and published by Iad Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories concerning the lives of several Warlpiri women - Recounts aspects of their daily life before the coming of white man - Molly Nungarrayi; Milly Nangala recounts how a woman successfully attracted and married her chosen man by singing love songs to him (Page 29) the tradition of women's songs.

Download or read book Yuupurnju written by Carmel O'Shannessy and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle *documents a ceremonial song cycle situated within the traditional kurdiji “shield” ceremony, as sung by Warlpiri Elder Henry Cooke Anderson Jakamarra at Lajamanu, Northern Territory, in 2013. The song cycle relates to a women’s jukurrpa *Dreaming narrative, and tells the story of a group of ancestral women on a journey across the country. Jakamarra performed the songs (recorded by Carmel O’Shannessy) to make them available to the Warlpiri community and the wider public. *Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle includes the words of the songs in Warlpiri, interpretation in English as given by the singer, Jakamarra, and Warlpiri Elders Jerry Patrick Jangala OAM, Wanta Stephen Patrick Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu Jampijinpa and Steven Dixon Japanangka, and detailed musical notation by ethnomusicologist Myfany Turpin. It includes a foreword by two senior custodians, Jerry Patrick Jangala OAM, and Wanta Jampijinpa.