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The Myth of the Natural Laboratory
Outsiders have construed Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands as isolated natural laboratories since the nineteenth century. The islands’ inhabitants, descended from the eighteenth-century mutineers of the British naval vessel Bounty and their partners from Tahiti, Tubuai, Huahine, and Raiatea, have long been idealized by investigators as incomparable research subjects, uniquely suited for the study of racial, cultural, and linguistic “hybridity.” But how did these two Pacific islands come to be seen as natural experiments in the first place? How was that idea shaped and contested in encounters between knowledge makers and the people they studied? And how can we dismantle the myth of the Pacif...
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact
Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages. In many cases, this influence is reflected in words which have been absorbed from other languages as the names for newer items or ideas, such as perestroika, manga, or intifada (from Russian, Japanese, and Arabic respectively). In other cases, the influence of other languages goes deeper, and includes the addition of new sounds, grammatical forms, and idioms to the pre-existing language. For example, English's structure has been shaped in such a way by the effects of Norse, French, Latin, and Celtic--though English is not alone in its openness to these influences. Any features can potentially be transferred from one language ...
Languages of Sabah
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Pacific Linguistics
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Comparative Studies in Northern Kimberley Languages
Comparative syntax, morphology and phonology of Northern Kimberley languages Worrorra, Ngarinyin, Wonambal, Ungguni, Winyjarrumi, Yawjibarra, Unggarangu, Umida, Wilawila, Gambere, Miwa, Kwini, Guwij, Munumburru, Wolyamidi, Worla, Kija, Kulwarrang; Miriwung, Kajirrawung, Bunuba, Gooniyandi, comparisons with other Aboriginal languages.
