Lexical and Structural Etymology : Beyond Word Histories.
Title:
Lexical and Structural Etymology : Beyond Word Histories.
Author:
Koch, Harold.
ISBN:
9781614510581
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (324 pages)
Series:
Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; v.11
Studies in Language Change [SLC]
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Contact details and affiliations of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Etymology beyond word histories -- Towards a framework of contact etymology -- Obscure vs. transparent cognates in linguistic reconstruction -- The etymology of a paradigm: the Pama-Nyungan 3SgF reconsidered -- Constructional etymology: The sources of relative clauses -- Concerning myself -- Granny got cross: semantic change of kami 'mother's mother' to 'father's mother' in Pama-Nyungan -- Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu -- Markers of the spirit world in Oceanic languages -- Etymology of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay bird names -- The smuggled budgie: case study of an Australian loanblend -- Archaisms in placenames in Arabana-Wangkangurru country -- Subject index.
Abstract:
The series Studies in Language Change presents empirically based research that extends knowledge about historical relations among the world's languages without restriction to any particular language family or region. While not devoted explicitly to theoretical explanations, the series hopes to contribute to the advancement in understandings of language change as well as adding to the store of well-analysed historical-comparative data on the world's languages.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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