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STUF - Language Typologie and Universals 65(1)  "Linguistic geography"
François Jacquesson (ed.)
Our aim was to compare various approaches to linguistic diversity, when the principal purpose is not the reconstruction of proto-langues. […] See more |
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Contes à rire de Roumanie.
Facéties et histoires courtes
by Micheline Lebarbier
Les récits facétieux présentés ici sont issus d'un corpus de près de cent textes oraux qui furent recueillis au cours de l'automne 1971 et de […] See more |
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Sami: An Introduction to the Language and Culture
by M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest
A book about a doubly original language : Finno-Ugric, and still orally transmitted in Europe. Beyond a short grammar, enriched by the first […] See more |
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Langage & société 139 "Dell Hymes : héritages, débats, renouvellements, branchements"
Bertrand Masquelier & C. Trimaille (eds)
Dans le contexte des transformations de l'anthropologie linguistique du milieu du XXe siècle, mais aussi de l'émergence concomitante de la sociolinguistique, et des renouvellements théoriques en […] See more |
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Le sungwadia, Eléments de description d'une langue du Vanuatu
by Agnès Henri
Le sungwadia est une langue océanienne à tradition orale du centre-nord Vanuatu, parlée dans l'île de Maewo par environ 500 locuteurs. […] See more |
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Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax
Claire Moyse-Faurie & J. Sabel (eds)
This monograph is a collection of selected papers on Oceanic languages. For the first time, aspects of the morphology and syntax of Oceanic languages such asthe encoding of sentence types, […] See more |
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 Du terrain au cognitif – Linguistique, ethnolinguistique, ethnosciences – À Jacqueline M.C. Thomas
[From fieldwork to cognition – Linguistics, ethnolinguistics, ethnosciences – For Jacqueline M.C. Thomas]
(editors) E. Motte-Florac & G. Guarisma
French presentation translated into English:
[Jacqueline M.C. Thomas, ethnolinguist and founder of the LACITO, has untiringly worked to establish the importance of not separating a language from the community speaking it. "Linguistic studies are meaningless unless they are based on very sound knowledge of the culture in which the languages are spoken". She further insists that "to study a society means to perfectly master the language(s) it speaks".] See more
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