Search Results: Linguistics from Anubis Books

Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005. 2nd printing with errata slip laid in.Researching and archiving languages that are no longer spoken, or are still spoken by only a few people, can be a long and involved project. It requires a certain amount of detective work to go through old sources and to make them useful to language projects. Paper and Talk aims to give information to both the community and academic language workers about taking texts and wordlists from historical sources (from manuscripts to oral recordings), and making them useful in language programs and literature today. The contributors which include Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous language workers, investigates establishing language dictionaries from historical material. Paper and Talk examines the links between languages and country; where to look for historical material; how languages are written and pronounced; understanding the grammar; the importance of reintegrating lost languages back into common day usage; and the… Read More

Syracuse, Syracuse University Press. 1989. 1st edition paperback, 318 pages. In very good condition