Australian languages: their nature and development
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Main Author: Dixon, Robert M. W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 2002
Series:Cambridge language surveys
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 700-718) and index
Language situation in Australia -- - Modelling the language situation -- - Overview -- - Vocabulary -- - Case and other nominal suffixes -- - Verbs -- - Pronouns -- - Bound pronouns -- - Prefixing and fusion -- - Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes -- - Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles -- - Phonology -- - Genetic subgroups and small linguistic area -- - Summary and conclusion
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xlii, 734 pages)
ISBN:051103783X
0511039573
051105307X
0511148186
0521473780
9780511037832
9780511039577
9780511053078
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