LINGUIST List 17.2827

Fri Sep 29 2006

Books: Discourse Analysis/Ling Theories: Nekes, Worms, McGregor (Ed)

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Directory         1.    Julia Ulrich, Australian Languages: Nekes, Worms, McGregor (Ed)
Message 1: Australian Languages: Nekes, Worms, McGregor (Ed)
Date: 18-Sep-2006
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Australian Languages: Nekes, Worms, McGregor (Ed)


Title: Australian Languages Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation 24 Published: 2006 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
                http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110175975-1&l=E

Editor: William B. McGregor, University of Aarhus Author: Hermann Nekes Author: Ernest A. Worms Hardback: ISBN: 3110175975 Pages: 415 Price: Europe EURO 198.00 Comment: for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 267.30
Abstract:

Australian Languages is the magnum opus of Hermann Nekes and Ernest Worms,two missionary linguists who undertook pioneering investigations of anumber of languages spoken in Dampier Land and the Kimberley (far northwest of Australia) and to a lesser extent further afield, in Queensland andNew South Wales during the 1930s and 1940s. Presenting a wealth ofinformation on many now extinct or moribund languages, the work is ofenormous value to descendants of speakers as well as to linguists,including Australianists, descriptive linguists, typologists, andhistorians of linguistics.

The original text of Australian Languages, which previously appeared onlyon micro-film, is divided into five parts: a grammar outlining some of themajor features of Australian languages (with particular focus on theNyulnyulan languages traditionally spoken on Dampier Land); an Englishfinder list; an alphabetically arranged wordlist covering a variety oflanguages; a separate wordlist of Dyirbal (North Queensland), and a smallnumber of texts.

William B. McGregor has revised, annotated and updated the material. Anaccompanying CD-ROM contains a digitized facsimile of the entire originalmicro-film with links to an electronic version of the book, a user-friendlydatabase version of the dictionaries and other accompanying material.

Includes CD-Rom.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories                             Discourse Analysis                             Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Dyirbal (dbl) Language Family(ies): Nyulnyulan
Written In: English (eng )

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