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Lexical and Structural Etymology : Beyond Word Histories.
This pioneer volume assembles thirteen etymological studies covering a broad range of languages, focusing in particular Australian Indigenous languages. Etymology is understood in a broad sense as a type of historical research that aims at investigating the origin of a word (lexical etymology) or st...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in Language Change SLC.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contact details and affiliations of contributors
- Abbreviations
- Table of contents
- Introduction: Etymology beyond word histories / Mailhammer, Robert
- Towards a framework of contact etymology / Mailhammer, Robert
- Obscure vs. transparent cognates in linguistic reconstruction / Koch, Harold ; Hercus, Luise
- The etymology of a paradigm: the Pama-Nyungan 3SgF reconsidered / Koch, Harold
- Constructional etymology: The sources of relative clauses / Hendery, Rachel
- Concerning myself / Vennemann, Theo
- Granny got cross: semantic change of kami 'mother's mother' to 'father's mother' in Pama-Nyungan / McConvall, Patrick
- Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu / François, Alexandre
- Markers of the spirit world in Oceanic languages / Osmond, Meredith
- Etymology of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay bird names / Giacon, John
- The smuggled budgie: case study of an Australian loanblend / Nash, David
- Archaisms in placenames in Arabana- Wangkangurru country / Hercus, Luise
- Subject index.