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Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the
documentation of endangered languages Gurindji is a Pama-Nyungan
language of north-central Australia. It is a member of the Ngumpin
subgroup which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa group. The
phonology is typically Pama-Nyungan; the phoneme inventory contains
five places of articulation for stops which have corresponding
nasals. It also has three laterals, two rhotics and three vowels.
There are no fricatives and, among the stops, voicing is not
phonemically distinctive. One striking morpho-phonological process
is a nasal cluster dissimilation (NCD) rule. Gurindji is
morphologically agglutinative and suffixing, exhibiting a mix of
dependent-marking and head-marking. Nominals pattern according to
an ergative system and bound pronouns show an accusative pattern.
Gurindji marks a further 10 cases. Free and bound pronouns
distinguish person (1st inclusive and exclusive, 2nd and 3rd) and
three numbers (minimal, unit augmented and augmented). The Gurindji
verb complex consists of an inflecting verb and coverb. Inflecting
verbs belong to a closed class of 34 verbs which are grammatically
obligatory. Coverbs form an open class, numbering in the hundreds
and carrying the semantic weight of the complex verb
Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi
and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written
from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern
Anthropology investigates the authors' work on Aboriginal and
Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan
centres.
Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside
the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after
eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread
industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist.
This volume, using the lens of language, offers us a window into
the inner workings of twenty-first-century hunter-gatherer
societies - how they survive and how they interface with societies
that produce more. It challenges long-held assumptions about the
limits on social dynamism in hunter-gatherer societies to show that
their languages are no different either typologically or
sociolinguistically from other languages. With its worldwide
coverage, this volume serves as a report on the state of
hunter-gatherer societies at the beginning of the twenty-first
century, and readers in all geographical areas will find arguments
of relevance here.
Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside
the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after
eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread
industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist.
This volume, using the lens of language, offers us a window into
the inner workings of twenty-first-century hunter-gatherer
societies - how they survive and how they interface with societies
that produce more. It challenges long-held assumptions about the
limits on social dynamism in hunter-gatherer societies to show that
their languages are no different either typologically or
sociolinguistically from other languages. With its worldwide
coverage, this volume serves as a report on the state of
hunter-gatherer societies at the beginning of the twenty-first
century, and readers in all geographical areas will find arguments
of relevance here.
Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together.
This volume presents a novel approach to understanding the genesis
of these systems and how and why they change. The editors bring
together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and
linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to
reconstruct kinship in ancient times. Kinship Systems presents
evidence of renewed activity and advances in this field in recent
years which will contribute to the current interdisciplinary focus
on the evolution of society. While all continents are touched on in
this book, there is special emphasis on Australian indigenous
societies, which have been a source of fascination in kinship
studies.
One key argument in the book is that linguistic evidence for
reconstruction of ancient terminologies can provide strong
independent evidence to complement anthropologists' notions of
structural kinship transformations and ground them in actual
historical and geographical contexts. There are principles that we
all share, no matter what kind of society we live in, and these
provide a common "language" for anthropology and linguistics. With
this language we can accurately compare how family relations are
organized in different societies, as well as how we talk about such
relations. Because this concept has often been denied by the
trajectories in anthropology over the last few decades, "Kinship
Systems "represents a reassertion of, and advances on, classical
kinship theory and methods. Innovations and interdisciplinary
methods are described by the originators of the new approaches and
other leading regional experts.
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