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Direct linkMarian Klamer; Francesca R. Moro – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
While there is overall consensus that narratives obtained by means of visual stimuli contain less natural language than free narratives, it has been less clear how the naturalness of a narrative can be measured in a crosslinguistically meaningful way. Here this question is addressed by studying the differences between free narratives and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Research, Visual Stimuli, Contrastive Linguistics
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language/Area Reference Center. – 1984
An alphabetical working list of about 1,000 languages that have appeared in the linguistic research of the Center for Applied Linguistics in the last 15 years is presented. A standard name for each language is provided, with an indication of alternative names for the language and the geographic location of the native speakers. An explanation for…
Descriptors: Dialects, Geographic Location, Language Classification, Language Research
Lewis, Kathleen – Linguistic Reporter, 1971
Conference held April 23-25, 1970 in Washington, D.C. with support from the U.S. Office of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (VM)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Research
Burgoyne, Julie – Linguistic Reporter, 1971
Conference held August 1-8, 1970 at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, with support from the Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation. (VM)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification
PDF pending restorationBonwick, James, Comp. – 1967
This is a reprint of a work published in 1873. Cross-referenced definitions of languages and dialects, geographical areas, native peoples, and philological terms comprise the major portion of this book. Approximately 4,200 entries are included. An intoduction describes the geographical distribution of major languages. [Not available in hard copy…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dictionaries, Geographic Distribution
Lyovin, Anatole V. – 1997
The textbook is designed to introduce beginning students of linguistics to the variety of languages of the world. It assumes the reader has mastered the basic principles of linguistics, but seeks background information in the broad range of language phenomena found in the world's languages. Chapters address these topics: classification of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
Lotz, John – 1972
The materials included in this document concern the theory, objectives, and administrative issues behind the project to describe the languages of the world. The basic objective of the project is to collect a series of language descriptions which achieve an acceptable level of descriptive adequacy without interfering with the freedom of the…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics
Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M. – 1976
This volume consists of a classification of the world's languages. The book is organized alphabetically in terms of classes. Within each class, the title of each entry is the name of a group of related languages. On the whole, the groups of languages discussed in an entry represent genetic units or purported genetic units. The internal…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afro Asiatic Languages, American Indian Languages, Australian Aboriginal Languages
