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McDavid, Raven I., Jr. – 1979
This is a collection of 60 essays on dialectology written in the period from 1942 to 1979. The essays fall into the categories of theoretical, applied, and critical dialectology. Some of the more recent titles include: "System and Variety in American English,""Dialect Differences and Social Differences in an Urban…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Book Reviews, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
Blansitt, Edward L., Jr., Ed.; Teschner, Richard V., Ed. – 1980
Among the 29 articles collected here are the following: (1) "On Markedness and Sociolinguistic Variation" (Amastae); (2) "On the Form of Bilingual Grammars: The Phonological Component" (Elerick); (3) "On Negation in Comparative Constructions" (Fries); (4) "Class by Value System: Implications for Bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics
Matras, Yaron, Ed.; Bakker, Peter, Ed.; Kyuchukov, Hristo, Ed. – 1997
Papers on typology and dialects of the Romani language include: "Athematic Morphology in Romani: The Borrowing of a Borrowing Pattern" (Peter Bakker); "Towards a Morphology-Based Typology of Romani" (Viktor Elsik); "The Typology of Case Relations and Case Layer Distribution in Romani" (Yaron Matras); "Object…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Download full textSandefur, John R. – 1984
Three articles on the orthography of Australian Aboriginal Kriol include: "Aspects of Developing a Writing System with Particular Reference to the Revision of the Kriol Orthography"; "A Guide to the Kriol Writing System"; and "A Resource Guide to Kriol." In the first two papers, issues of dealing with orthography in a…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Alphabets, Creoles, Cultural Context
PDF pending restorationHudson, Joyce, Ed.; Pym, N., Ed. – 1984
Reports on three surveys of Australian Aboriginal language use, undertaken to determine the language groups' needs for translation and literacy projects, are presented. "Communicability of Some Western Desert Communilects" by K. C. Hansen evaluates mutual intelligibility between languages and dialects in that region, and addresses the complicating…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Bilingualism, Community Surveys, Creoles
