Harold Koch

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

Journal

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

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 studiesPerspectives 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
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) verbsLanguage 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 PacificDiachronica 31:2, pp. 267–278 | 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
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
Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch 2004 Introduction: subgrouping methodology in historical linguisticsAustralian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
Koch, Harold 2004 A methodological history of Australian linguistic classificationAustralian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 17 ff. | Article
Koch, Harold 2004 The Arandic subgroup of Australian languagesAustralian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 127 ff. | 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