1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, Nerida Jarkey: The
integration of language and society: A cross-linguistic view
2: Nerida Jarkey: The grammatical expression of social relations in
Japanese
3: Stephen Watters: Honorification in Dzongkha
4: Pema Wangdi: Identifying who is who in Brokpa
5: R. M. W. Dixon: The semantics of the Dyirbal avoidance style:
Adjectives
6: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: The ways of speaking and the means of
knowing: The Tariana of northwest Amazonia
7: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak: Links between language and society among
the Murui of Northwest Amazonia
8: Luca Ciucci: How grammar and culture interact in Zamucoan
9: Dineke Schokkin: The integration of languages and society: A
view from multilingual Southern New Guinea
10: Maarten Mous: The Iraqw society reflected in their language
11: Anne Storch: Waiting: On language and hospitality
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for
Indigenous Health Equity Research at the Cairns Campus of Central
Queensland University. She is a major authority on languages of the
Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of
Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from
Northwest Amazonia (CUP, 2003) and The Manambu Language of East
Sepik, Papua New Guinea (OUP, 2008; paperback 2010), in
addition to essays on various typological and areal features of
South American and Papuan languages and typological issues
including evidentials, classifiers, and serial verbs. Her other
recent publications with OUP
include Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon
(2012; paperback 2015), The Art of Grammar (2015), How Gender
Shapes the World (2016; paperback 2018), and Serial Verbs (2018).
R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Indigenous
Health Equity Research at the Cairns Campus of Central Queensland
University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian
languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), as well as studies
of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988) and Jarawara
(OUP, 2004). His book The Rise and Fall of Languages (CUP, 1997)
expounded a punctuated equilibrium model for language development;
this is the basis for his detailed case study
Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development (CUP, 2002). His
many publications with OUP include the three-volume work Basic
Linguistic Theory (2010-12), Making New Words (2014), Edible
Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders (2015;
paperback 2020), Are Some Languages Better than Others? (2016;
paperback 2018), and English Prepositions: Their Meanings and Uses
(2021). Nerida Jarkey is Honorary Associate Professor in
Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. She has a particular
interest in the semantics of grammar, with a focus on transitivity
and on multi-verb constructions in Japanese and White Hmong. She
also investigates how speakers use grammatical elements
not only to convey propositional and interpersonal meanings but
also to construct socio-cultural meanings and identities. Her
monograph Serial Verbs in White Hmong was published by Brill in
2015 as part of the series 'Studies in Language, Cognition and
Culture'.
Overall this is a very welcome book, and it contains abundant
references to other writings by the co--editors and by others which
evidently give fuller information on some of the phenomena
discussed. I very much hope that these and other publications in a
similar vein may represent a wider reorientation of linguistics
towards the study of the real differences between human languages,
and away from the vain efforts of linguists of the recent past to
portray all languages as "underlyingly" alike.
*Geoffrey Sampson, University of Sussex, Linguist List*
a very welcome book
*Geoffrey Sampson, The LINGUIST List*
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