35.2911, Books: Australian Pama­-Nyungan languages: Stockigt (2024)

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Date: 17-Oct-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Australian Pama­-Nyungan languages: Stockigt (2024)


Title: Australian Pama­-Nyungan languages
Subtitle: Lineages of early description
Series Title: History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/330

Author: Clara Stockigt
eBook: ISBN: 978-3-96110-488-8 Pages: 520 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

A substantial proportion of what is discoverable about the structure
of many Aboriginal languages spoken on the vast Australian continent
before their decimation through colonial invasion is contained in
nineteenth-century grammars. Many were written by fervent young
missionaries who traversed the globe intent on describing the
languages spoken by “heathens”, whom they hoped to convert to
Christianity. Some of these documents, written before Australian or
international academic institutions expressed any interest in
Aboriginal languages, are the sole record of some of the hundreds of
languages spoken by the first Australians, and many are the most
comprehensive. These grammars resulted from prolonged engagement and
exchange across a cultural and linguistic divide that is atypical of
other early encounters between colonised and colonisers in Australia.
Although the Aboriginal contributors to the grammars are frequently
unacknowledged and unnamed, their agency is incontrovertible.

This history of the early description of Australian Aboriginal
languages traces a developing understanding and ability to describe
Australian morphosyntax. Focus on grammatical structures that
challenged the classically trained missionary-grammarians – the
description of the case systems, ergativity, bound pronouns, and
processes of clause subordination – identifies the provenance of
analyses, development of descriptive techniques, and paths of
intellectual descent. The corpus of early grammatical description
written between 1834 and 1910 is identified in Chapter 1. Chapter 2
discusses the philological methodology of retrieving data from these
grammars. Chapters 3–10 consider the grammars in an order determined
both by chronology and by the region in which the languages were
spoken, since colonial borders regulated the development of the three
schools of descriptive practice that are found to have developed in
the pre-academic era of Australian linguistic description.

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Nyunga (nys)

Written In: English (eng)



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