Robert Amery
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert Amery plays a role.
Articles
2020 Emotion metaphors in an awakening language: Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 272–312 | Article
Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains, is an awakening language undergoing revival since 1989 (Amery 2016). Though little knowledge of Kaurna remains in the oral tradition and no sound recordings of the language as it was spoken in the nineteenth century exist, a surprising number and… read more
2013 A matter of interpretation: Language planning for a sleeping language, Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia Language Problems and Language Planning 37:2, pp. 101–124 | Article
Kaurna, the language indigenous to the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, is being reclaimed from nineteenth-century written historical sources. There are no sound recordings of the language as it was spoken in the nineteenth century, and little has been handed down orally to the present… read more
2007 34. Funeral liturgy as a strategy for language revival Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 457–467 | Article