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ItemMaterials on Golin: grammar, texts and dictionary(The Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, 2005-04)Golin is a language spoken in the Simbu (Chimbu) region of Papua New Guinea. This publication consists of a selection of articles, texts and a dictionary. This was as part of the Linguistic Field Methods Subject presented by Prof. Nick Evans at The University of Melbourne, first semester 2003.This book is divided ito three parts, language analysis; a collection of texts and a small dictionary, The analysis offers insights into different aspects of the Golin language such as tonal phonology, verb morphology, and clause structure. The texts in the second part are short narratives where Kia (our language informant), recalls past experiences. The small dictionary contains about 600 entries.
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ItemWord Structure in Ngalakgan(CSLI Publications, 2008)
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ItemLanguage, citizenship and identity in Quebec(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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ItemTiles In A Multilingual Mosaic. Macedonian, Filipino, and Somali in Melbourne(Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2006)
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ItemA grammar of south efate(University of Hawaii Press, 2006-01-01)This volume presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of Port Vila. There has been no previous grammatical description of the language, which has been classified as the southernmost member of the North-Central Vanuatu subgroup of languages. In this description I show that South Efate shares features with southern Vanuatu languages, including a lack of serial verb constructions of the kind known for its northern neighbors and the use of an echo-subject marker. The phonology of South Efate reflects an ongoing change in progress, with productive medial vowel deletion and consequent complex heterorganic consonant clusters.
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ItemLanguage and Human Relations Styles of Address in Contemporary Language Introduction(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2009-01-01)The way in which people address one another is crucial to expressing social relationships and is closely linked with cultural values. In English we call some people by their first names, and others 'Mr' or 'Ms', followed by their surname. In some other languages there are different ways of saying 'you' depending on the degree of social distance. Exploring practices in the family, school, university, the workplace and in letters, this book reveals patterns in the varied ways people choose to address one another, from pronouns to first names, from honorifics to titles and last names. Examples are taken from contemporary English, French, German and Swedish, using rich data from focus group research, interviews, chat groups, and participant observation.
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ItemBininj Gun-Wok: A pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune(Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2003)
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ItemDynamics of Language Contact(Cambridge University Press, 2003)