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Auteur(s) : Dixon, Robert M. W. (1939-....)
Titre(s) : Edible gender, mother-in-law style, and other grammatical wonders [Texte imprimé] : studies in Dyirbal, Yidiñ, and Warrgamay / R.M.W. Dixon
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, copyright 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-342 p.) : ill., map ; 24 cm
Collection : [Oxford linguistics]
Lien à la collection : Oxford linguistics
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-338) and index
This book builds on R.M.W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages
of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing grammar of Dyirbal published
in 1972 to later grammars of Yidin (1971) and Warrgamay (1981). 'Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law
Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders' includes further studies on these languages,
and the interrelations between them. Following an account of the anthropological and
linguistic background, part I provides a thorough examination of, and comparison between,
the gender system in Dyirbal (one of whose members refers to 'edible vegetables')
and the set of nominal classifiers in Yidin. The chapters in part II describe Dyirbal's
unusual kinship system and the 'mother-in-law' language style, and examines the origins
of 'mother-in-law' vocabulary in Dyirbal and in Yidin. There are four grammatical
studies in part III, dealing with syntactic orientation, serial verb constructions,
complementation strategies, and grammatical reanalysis. Part IV covers grammatical
and lexical variation across the dialects of Dyirbal, compensatory phonological changes,
and a study of language contact across the Cairns rainforest region. The two final
chapters, in Part V, recount the sad stories of how the Yidin and Dyirbal languages
slowly slipped into oblivion
Sujet(s) : Langues australiennes -- Grammaire
Dyirbal (langue) -- Grammaire
Yidiny (langue)
Warrgamay (langue)
Indice(s) Dewey :
499.15 (23e éd.) = Langues australiennes et tasmaniennes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-870290-0 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470334090
Notice n° :
FRBNF47033409
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1. Background ; 1.1. Culture ; 1.2. Jalnguy, the `mother-in-law' style ; 1.3.
Tribes, languages, and dialects ; 1.4. Phonology ; 1.5. Typological characteristics
; pt. I Genders and classifiers ; 2. Edible and the other genders in Dyirbal ; 2.1.
Grammatical properties ; 2.2. Outline of semantics ; 2.3. Basic concepts ; 2.4.
General principles ; 2.5. Summing up ; A note concerning Lakoff's misrepresentation
; 3. Classifiers in Yidin ; 3.1. How classifiers are used ; 3.2. Criteria for recognising
classifiers ; 3.3. Semantic basis of classifiers ; 3.4. Comparing Dyirbal genders
and Yidin classifiers ; pt. II Kin relations and how to talk with them ; 4. The
Dyirbal kinship system ; 4.1. The basic kin terms ; 4.2. Nyalal, the more specific
or `polite' kin terms ; 4.3. Some linguistic features ; 4.4. Rules for choosing
a spouse ; 4.5. The system in practice ; 5. Jalnguy, the `mother-in-law' speech
style in Dyirbal ; 5.1. Orientation ; 5.2. When it was used ; 5.3. Semantic organisation
; 5.4. Nouns ; 5.5. Adjectives and time words ; 5.6. Across word classes ; 5.7.
Some verbs of motion ; 5.8. Other verbs ; 5.9. Envoi ; 6. The origin of `mother-in-law'
vocabulary in Dyirbal and Yidin ; 6.1. The data base ; 6.2. Lexemes between dialects
and between languages ; 6.3. Sources of Jalnguy lexemes ; 6.4. Dialect-internal
phonological deformation ; 6.5. From an everyday style lexeme in another dialect
or language ; 6.6. From another Jalnguy ; 6.7. Conclusions ; pt. III Grammatical
studies ; 7. Comparing the syntactic orientations of Dyirbal and Yidin ; 7.1. The
syntactic orientation of Dyirbal ; 7.2. The syntactic orientation of Yidin ; 7.3.
Summary and explanation ; 7.4. Conclusion ; 8. Serial verb constructions in Dyirbal
; 8.1. Introductory ; 8.2. Characterisation of serial verb constructions ; 8.3.
Grammatical background ; 8.4. The serial verb construction in Dyirbal ; 8.5. Grammatical
properties ; 8.6. Semantics ; 8.7. Summary ; 9. Complementation strategies in Dyirbal
; 9.1. Types of clause linking ; 9.2. Complementation strategies in Dyirbal ; 9.3.
The serial verb strategy ; 9.4. The relative clause strategy ; 9.5. The purposive
strategy ; 9.6. Discussion ; 10. Grammatical reanalysis in Warrgamay ; 10.1. Making
case alternations functional ; 10.2. Transitivity ; 10.3. The purposive construction
; 10.4. Reconstruction of historical changes in Warrgamay ; 10.5. Possible future
developments ; pt. IV Variation, contact, and change ; 11. Dyirbal grammar: variation
across dialects ; 11.1. Nominals ; 11.2. Noun and verb markers, and demonstratives
; 11.3. Pronouns and interrogatives/indefinites ; 11.4. Verbals ; 11.5. Particles
; 11.6. Clitics, universal affixes, and interjections ; 12. Dyirbal dialectology:
Lexical variation ; 12.1. Lexical variation across the dialects of Dyirbal ; 12.2.
Semantic variation ; 13. Compensatory phonological changes ; 13.1. Introduction
; 13.2. Changes in root forms ; 13.3. Changes relating to nominal morphology ; 13.4.
Changes relating to verbal morphology ; 13.5. Exceptions to the rules ; 13.6. Genesis
and diffusion ; 13.7. Conclusion ; 14. A study of language contact ; 14.1. Introduction
; 14.2. Demonstratives and related items ; 14.3. Tense systems ; 14.4. Pronoun systems
; 14.5. Initial rhotic ; 14.6. Contrastive vowel length ; 14.7. Conclusion ; pt.
V Languages fading away ; 15. The last change in Yidin ; 15.1. Introduction ; 15.2.
Semi-speakers ; 15.3. Nominal inflection ; 15.4. Root reassignment ; 15.5. Other
variations ; 15.6. Conclusion ; 16. The gradual decline of Dyirbal ; 16.1. The
first hundred years after the European invasion ; 16.2. The situation in 1963 ;
16.3. Work from 1977 until 1984 ; 16.4. Work from 1986 until 1992, and beyond.
