Aboriginal Linguistics 1 / edited by Nicholas Evans & Steve Johnson. Armidale, NSW : University of New England, Dept. of Linguistics, 1988.
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Monograph edited by Nicholas Evans and Steve Johnson and published in 1988 by the Linguistics Department, University of New England. The print copy has been scanned and this collection includes records for individual chapters and for the book preliminaries. The chapter by Patrick McConvell has not been included.
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Item Open Access On the status of the feature rhotic in some languages of the north-west of Australia(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) McGregor, WilliamItem Open Access Yanyuwa: 'Men speak one way, women speak another'(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) Bradley, JohnThis paper describes briefly the apparently unique system within the Yanyuwa language of having separate dialects for male and female speakers. I will highlight some of the social and ethnographic features of language as it is used in day-to-day speech and in such specific examples as song and ritual. The system is pervasive and distinctly marks the way in which men and women must speak. As a result the roles of men and women in Yanyuwa society are not only contrasted by their social roles, such as ritual life, hunting and nurturing, such as can be found other Aboriginal communities, but also explicitly by the use of different dialects by male and female speakers. The sex of the hearer has no relevance to the way the language is spoken: men speak their dialect to women and women speak their dialect to men.Item Open Access Review: Ngalakan grammar, texts and vocabulary by Francesca Merlan(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) Evans, NicholasItem Open Access Men's and women's dialects(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) Kirton, Jean F.In the Yanyuwa language, there are separate dialects for the men and for the women, with differences of a kind normally associated with language dialects in separate locations. Reference has been made to this feature of Yanyuwa in earlier papers which describe pronominal sets, nouns and verbs in the language (see Kirton 1970:835-37, 840; 1971:9-10, 52-54; 1978:13-14). Within the dialect system, members of each sex speak their own dialect. They have a passive knowledge of the other dialect but do not normally use it. However, if a man directly quotes a woman he uses her dialect within that direct quotation, and if a woman directly quotes a man she similarly uses his dialect. (With the coming of a written form of Yanyuwa, it is appropriate to read aloud what is written in the writer's dialect. This is a prolonged form of direct quotation.) Traditionally, small children were primarily with their mothers or other female relatives as they went hunting and in the domestic situation. A simpler form of language was used with the small children: certain consonant changes were made and some prefixes were omitted, but they grew up hearing the women's dialect, and to a lesser extent, the men's. At the time of initiation, the boys were removed to live in an exclusively male group and they were then expected to move into use of the men's dialect at the time of attaining manhood. The purpose of this paper is (i) to take an introductory look at some research on general features of differences in the speech of men and of women in English and in certain other languages, and (ii) to describe the differences in the men's and women's dialects of Yanyuwa in the language as a whole.Item Open Access The status of classifiers in Kugu Nganhcara nominals(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) Johnson, SteveItem Open Access Formalizing Yir-Yoront lenition(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) Alpher, BarryItem Open Access Arguments for Pama-Nyungan as a genetic subgroup, with particular reference to initial laminalization(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) Evans, NicholasItem Open Access Redefining Pama Nyungan: towards the prehistory of Australian languages(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) Blake, Barry J.Item Open Access Aboriginal linguistics 1 (preliminary pages)(University of New England, Department of Linguistics, 1988) Evans, Nicholas; Johnson, SteveCONTENTS: Redefining Pama-Nyungan: towards the prehistory of Australian languages / Barry J. Blake, page 1. Arguments for Pama-Nyungan as a genetic subgroup, with particular reference to initial laminalization / Nicholas Evans, page 91. Men's and women's dialects / Jean F. Kirton, page 111. Yanyuwa: 'Men speak one way, women speak another' / John Bradley, page 126. Nasal Cluster Dissimilation and constraints on phonological variables in Gurindji and related languages / Patrick McConvell, page 135. On the status of the feature rhotic in some languages of the north-west of Australia / William McGregor, page 166. Formalizing Yir-Yoront lenition / Barry Alpher, page 188. The status of classifiers in Kugu Nganhcara nominals / Steve Johnson, page 198. Review: Francesca Merlan: Ngalakan grammar, texts and vocabulary / Nicholas Evans, page 204.