Lexical and Structural Etymology

✍ Scribed by Robert Mailhammer

• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Series: Studies in Language Change
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This pioneer volume assembles thirteen etymological studies covering a broad range of languages, focusing in particular Australian Indigenous languages. Etymology is understood in a broad sense as a type of historical research that aims at investigating the origin of a word (lexical etymology) or structure (structural etymology). The phenomena investigated in the contributions comprise Australian Indigenous place names and kinship terms, constructions and word histories in Oceanic languages, typological investigations and papers on the methodology of etymological research.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 11
Contact details and affiliations of contributors......Page 5
Abbreviations......Page 7
Introduction: Etymology beyond word histories......Page 13
Towards a framework of contact etymology......Page 21
Obscure vs. transparent cognates in linguistic reconstruction......Page 45
The etymology of a paradigm: the Pama-Nyungan 3SgF reconsidered......Page 65
Constructional etymology: The sources of relative clauses......Page 95
Concerning myself......Page 133
Granny got cross: semantic change of kami ‘mother’s mother’ to ‘father’s
mother’ in Pama-Nyungan......Page 159
Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern
Vanuatu......Page 197
Markers of the spirit world in Oceanic languages......Page 257
Etymology of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay bird names......Page 263
The smuggled budgie: case study of an Australian loanblend......Page 305
Archaisms in placenames in Arabana-Wangkangurru country......Page 325
Subject index......Page 335

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Сравнительно-историческое языкознание;