2nd Call for Papers: Background: Migration into and within Africa has been increasingly motivated by social, political, educational and economic purposes. Movements of peoples in contemporary times, en-masse or in smaller groups have an impact on language practices in multilingual Africa. These movements raise a number of interesting questions such as; What changes are there in contexts where different languages come into contact as a result of different people mobility? How mobile are langu

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

The chapters in this volume address the question to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible. Linguistic idealism, as defined here, holds that both the existence and the (very general) structure of the world are in some sense dependent on the existence and the structure of language. The interest of the thesis is that, since human language is an evolved, empirical phenomenon, it would be surprising and significant if the world, which existed long before human bein

The concept of linguistic relativity (or Whorfianism) has its roots in the linguistic anthropology of Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf in the early twentieth century. However, questions over the relationship between natural language and human cognition go much further and deeper. Unfortunately, linguistic relativity has about as many misinterpretations as it does labels (linguistic relativity, linguistic relativism, linguistic determinism, Whorfianism, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - weak an

This study endeavours to understand the construction and perception of minority languages in India from the colonial era to the contemporary period. Through illustrative examples, it seeks to delineate the evolution of orality and writing, the concept of vernacular, and the dynamics of translation, which is essential for a nuanced understanding of a linguistic phenomena. Emphasizing the pivotal role of English, the work challenges conventional perspectives on multilingualism, urging a re-evaluat

Hello everyone! I'm conducting a "la Caixa" Foundation funded research project at University of Barcelona on how extramural gaming habits relate to L2 English speaking skills. This study offers valuable English speaking practice with conversational AI in a low-stakes environment, with flexible participation you can complete from home anytime. You'll support ethical research using 100% free (as in freedom) software with no third-party data sharing, and contribute to informal language learni

Die Einwohner der Karolinen gehören der malayo-polynesischen Sprachfamilie an und sind in der Vergangenheit aus verschiedensten Regionen übergesiedelt: Japan, Samoa, Papua-Neuguinea, Malaysia, Mongolei, Neuseeland, Fidschi, Tonga und Hawaii. Die Karolinen sind eine Inselgruppe in der nordwestlichen Südsee in Mikronesien, die verstreut zwischen den Philippinen im Westen und den Marshallinseln im Osten liegen. Die Kulturen und Sprachen der Einwohner der verschiedenen Inseln sind miteinand

Das Jaunde ist eine Bantusprache, die in wenig voneinander abweichenden Mundarten im Süden von Alt- und Neukamerun gesprochen wird und als Verkehrssprache große Bedeutung erlangt hat. Diese handliche Kurzfassung enthält neben einer knappen, aber vollständigen Grammatik Erläuterungen zu der Lautlehre und Lautbildern. Zudem enthält das Buch Übungssätze und Textbeispiele wie beispielsweise kurze Gespräche aus dem Alltag der Jaunde zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Wörterbuch vervollständigt d

Crafting Resources for Language Pedagogy in the Digital Era delves on the significance of diversified multidisciplinary approach as the need for 21st century language pedagogy. This volume which stemmed from a webinar discusses the multifaced problems and loopholes that are exposed in transition from the physical to the digital platform. The different chapters in this volume address these challenges by adopting a paradigm shift in language pedagogy. This book offers multidisciplinary approaches

This is a valuable book on social media as valued channels for information dissemination with positive and negative implications in language and Literature. Social media provides an excess of conflicting and often imprecise information which can be both inadvertent and deliberately propagated by individuals and groups. Today all crises are inconspicuously communicated through social media, which are widely accepted platforms for public information exchange and crises management communication. Th

The Cochimian language family of central Baja California has been linked to the languages of the Yuman family. This contribution surveys the four Cochimian languages -- Jesuit Cochimí, Gabb Cochimí, Robinia, and Nebé -- in order to assess the family's phonological and morphological correspondences. The sound patterns of these languages are remarkably similar, with phonological divergence in some Nebé roots. Prefixes and suffixes (both derivational and inflectional) clearly reconstruct for Pr

Wer nur einigermaßen die australischen Sprachenverhältnisse kennt, sieht leicht, wie interessant, aber auch wie schwierig das Kapitel von den Personalpronomina in diesen Sprachen ist. Die Schwierigkeiten ergeben sich einerseits aus der Reichhaltigkeit der vorhandenen Formen - neben Singular und Plural auch Dual und stellenweise selbst Trial; in der 1. Person Plural, Dual (Trial) vielfach zwei Formen, eine inklusive und eine exklusive, ferner eine doppelte Formenreihe im Ganzen, je nachd

Georgian is the official language of Georgia. It’s the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself (about 83 percent of the population), and of another 500,000 abroad (chiefly in Turkey, Iran, Russia, USA and Europe). It is the literary language for all ethnographic groups of Georgian people, especially those who speak other South Caucasian languages (or Kartvelian languages). Georgian can be characterised as an agglutinative language. It shows split ergativity, poly-personal

The Indians of the Yokuts linguistic family, sometimes also called Mariposan, inhabited the southern end of the San Joaquin basin in California. Roughly, their territory extended from the Sierra Nevada to the Coast Range, and from the Tehachapi mountains which shut off the San Joaquin basin on the south from the desert, to the Fresno and Chowchilla rivers in the north. The higher Sierras all along this territory, and certain foothill regions in the south, were occupied by Indians belonging

The present analysis builds upon and extends proposals from recent research regarding the interpretation of null subjects (NSs) in consistent and partial NS languages. These proposals suggest that the interpretation of a NS depends on its connection to a specific type of Topic, notably the Aboutness-Shift Topic (A-Topic), which initiates a Topic chain (cf. Frascarelli 2007). The investigation seeks to determine: (i) whether NSs in Chinese are interpreted within a topical chain headed by an A-Top

Of the many linguistic families in California most are confined to single areas, but the large Moquelumnan or Miwok family is one of the few exceptions, in that the people speaking its various dialects occupy three distinct areas. These three areas, while actually quite near together, are at considerable distances from one another as compared with the areas occupied by any of the other linguistic families that are separated. The northern of the three Miwok areas, which may for convenience be

Language is predominantly a social phenomenon. Understanding language and its function in society has always been an object of research in sociolinguistics. Besides communication being the main purpose of language, it is also a crucial tool in economic development in modern societies. It plays a vital role in wealth creation, a distinct disposition of human beings. This research attempts to establish the relationship between language and economy, as the use of language plays a significant role i

This book is a study of a minority Dardic language Kohistani as spoken in Ganderbal in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The Kohistani speech community in Ganderbal is nested in a multilingual context, where it co-exists with Kashmiri, dominant language of the region, Gojri and Urdu. Urdu is used as a lingua franca among the diverse multilingual communities in Ganderbal. The Kohistanis in Ganderbal are multilinguals with varying degree of competence in Kashmiri, Gojri and Urdu. In this book, the str

The field of East Slavic historical linguistics has undergone dramatic change over the past 50 years. Progress in dialectology and accentology, along with the steady accretion of new primary materials (Novgorod birchbark texts), has rendered obsolete many of the formulas that have traveled from handbook to handbook. The teacher of the history of East Slavic faces the problem of how to combine the facts established and insights gained by recent scholarship with what remains valuable in traditiona

Seeking help to update information on South American languages for The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), at www.endangeredlanguages.com. Recent references, definitely after 2012, are needed that supply, where possible, speaker numbers, vitality status, and location, though information via personal communication is also welcome. I’ve updated the information on most of the Indigenous languages of South America (though it will not appear in the catalogue for some time yet). It