Harold Koch

List of John Benjamins publications for which Harold Koch plays a role.

Journal

Journal of Historical Linguistics (JHL)

General Editor: Silvia Luraghi, Eitan Grossman and Guglielmo Inglese

ISSN 2210-2116 | E-ISSN 2210-2124

Title

Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method

Edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249] 2004. xii, 377 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Subjects Australian languages | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Historical linguistics

Articles (16) | Order by:

Koch, Harold 2025 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language
Policy 10. 2014: Evidence from Australian languages Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 198–214 | Chapter

Inspired by discussions of privatives as a ‘previously unidentified source’ for verbal negation in main clauses, with evidence from Arawakan languages (Michael 2014; Rybka & Michael 2019), this paper builds on earlier observations on the relation of privative nominal suffixes to verbal negative… read more

Koch, Harold 2022 Development of aspect markers in Arandic languages, with notes on associated motion Development of Tense and Aspect Systems, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.), pp. 63–103 | Chapter

Koch, Harold 2020 Development of aspect markers in Arandic languages, with notes on associated motion Development of tense and aspect systems, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.), pp. 209–250 | Article

Languages of the Arandic subgroup of Pama-Nyungan languages of Australia have developed markers of aspect from a variety of sources, including verb phrases with stance auxiliaries and reduplicated forms. Other origins involve nominalised verb forms and the refunctionalisation of tense suffixes.… read more

Koch, Harold 2019 Morphosyntactic reanalysis in Australian languages: Three studies Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen, Heltoft, Lars, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 295–309 | Chapter

This paper discusses three examples of reanalysis in the Pama-Nyungan languages of Australia, affecting word, clause, and sentence level constructions respectively. The elimination of a morpheme boundary, with absorption of an erstwhile suffix into the nominal stem, in Western Desert dialects… read more

Koch, Harold 2015 Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the week Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 109–132 | Article

This paper explores some of the principles that affect diachronic change in ‘nomenclature systems’; i.e. closed sets of terms within a particular semantic domain, whose members are defined predominantly by their mutual relations within the set. Of special interest are changes that such sets undergo… read more

Koch, Harold 2014 The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology: History, method and Pama-Nyungan (Australian) verbs Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 153–190 | Article

This paper surveys the approaches that have been taken to the synchronic description of the inflectional classes of verbs of the Pama-Nyungan family of Australian languages, highlighting problems with the application of the concept of the morpheme, and the notion of “conjugation markers”. It then… read more

Koch, Harold, Robert Mailhammer, Robert Blust, Claire Bowern, Don Daniels, Alexandre François, Simon J. Greenhill, Brian D. Joseph, Lawrence A. Reid, Malcolm D. Ross and Paul J. Sidwell 2014 Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific Diachronica 31:2, pp. 267–278 | Article

Koch, Harold 2011 Substrate influences on New South Wales Pidgin: The origin of -im and -fela Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 489–512 | Article

This paper examines the influence of the grammar of Australian Aboriginal languages on New South Wales Pidgin (NSWP), which developed from the interaction of British colonists with the Indigenous people of the Sydney region beginning in 1788. This variety eventually spread over most of Australia… read more

Koch, Harold 2011 The influence of Arandic languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 437–460 | Article

This paper examines the influence of the grammar of Australian Aboriginal languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE). CAAE is considered to be a partially anglicised version of a former Central Australian Aboriginal Pidgin (CAAP). This CAAP was one of the local varieties of the… read more

Koch, Harold 2007 20. Divergent regularity in word-initial truncation in the Arandic languages Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 267–280 | Article

Koch, Harold 2007 Review of Evans (2003): The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative studies of the continent’s most linguistically complex region Diachronica 24:2, pp. 405–413 | Review

Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch 2004 Introduction: subgrouping methodology in historical linguistics Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

Koch, Harold 2004 A methodological history of Australian linguistic classification Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 17–60 | Article

Koch, Harold 2004 The Arandic subgroup of Australian languages Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 127–150 | Article

Koch, Harold 2003

Morphological reconstruction as an etymological method

Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001, Blake, Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds.), pp. 271–291 | Article

Koch, Harold 1990 Language and communication in Aboriginal land claim hearings Communication and Translation in Aboriginal Contexts, Bavin, Edith L. (ed.), pp. 1–47 | Article

This paper discusses aspects of the intercultural communication processes involved in the quasi-legal presentation of claims to traditional land by Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory before the Aboriginal Land Commissioner. The findings are documented by means of selected extracts from… read more