Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 2 : 13-14 November 2009

edited by Peter K. Austin [and others].

Published by London : Hans Rausing Endangered Langauges Project, SOAS, 2009

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321 pages ; 28 cm Contents: Introduction / Peter Sells -- Good things come in small languages: grammatical loss and innovation in Nzadi / Larry M. Hyman -- Grammatical categories and linguistictheory: elaborateness in grammar / Tania Kuteva -- A theory is only as good as the data: casting a wide net in Kabardian and Ahtna documentation / Ayla B. Applebaum & Andrea L. Berez -- Documenting deixis in Wik-Ngatharr and Wik-Ngathan / Louise Ashmore -- Mapping negation in conceptual space / Oliver Bond -- Narrative structuring (and restructuring) in Totela: a group study of tense-aspect in the field / Thera Marie Crane -- Construct forms of nouns in African languages / Denis Creissels -- Ideophones in unexpected places / Mark Dingemanse -- Minderico: an endangered language in Portugal / Vera Ferreira & Peter Bouda -- Discrete level narrative, terraced music: insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages / Dafydd Gibbon, Firmin Ahoua,Ble Francois Kipre; & Sascha Griffiths -- From text to typology: towards implementing quantitative typology on corpora from endangered languages / Geoffrey Haig & Stefan Schnell -- A note on the typology of head-internal relativization / Ken Hiraiwa -- Orientation or location? A case-study of Jaminjung and Kriol / Dorothea Hoffmann -- The linguistic importance of language isolates: the African case / Jean-Marie Hombert & Gerard Philippson -- Ultrasound imaging and theories of tongue root phenomena in African languages / Fusheini Hudu, Amanda Miller & Douglas Pulleyblank -- Multiple noun class prefixes in Otjiherero / Jekura U. Kavari & Lutz Marten -- Opacity in Bantu: In support of the internal organisation of features / Nancy C. Kula -- Typology of prosodic systems in Low Luga Izhorian varieties / Natalia Kuznetsova -- Modeling a new Guro orthography / Natalia Kuznetsova, Olga Kuznetsova & Valentin Vydrin -- Laz relative clauses in a typological and areal perspective / Rene Lacroix -- Towards a model of maximal accessibility in linguistic documentation work / Conor McDonough Quinn -- Gender and person markers in Cicipu discourse: 'non-topical' and 'topical'; anaphoric agreement / Stuart McGill -- Displaced arguments: S-O-V-X word order in Mande / Tatiana Nikitina -- Nominal tense in Tundra Nenets and Northern Samoyedic / Irina Nikolaeva -- Murrinh-Patha agreement: implications for the relationship between theory and description / Rachel Nordlinger -- Toward a notion of possible verb in Emai / Ronald P. Schaefer & Francis O. Egbokhare -- (Un)classifying Shabo: phylogenetic methods and results / Tyler Schnoebelen -- Do formal models constrain language description? The case of verbal agreementmorphology / Michael F. Thomas -- The Uncunwee (Ghulfan) Documentation Project: linking language documentation to language conservation / Robert S. Williams, Angelika Jakobi & Jade Comfort -- Null arguments and homonymy flight in the development of Creole pronounsystems / Melani Wratil -- Phonology and phonetics of tone in Northern Sotho,a Southern Bantu language / Sabine Zerbian.

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• Title: Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 2 : 13-14 November 2009
• Publisher: London : Hans Rausing Endangered Langauges Project, SOAS
• Publication Date: 2009
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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  • Linguistics