Australian languages : their nature and development /

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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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge language surveys.
Subjects:
Australian languages.
Australian languages > Grammar.
Langues australiennes.
Langues australiennes > Grammaire.
Language - Linguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Oceanic & Australian Languages.
Australian languages
Australian languages > Grammar
Australische talen.
Australische Sprachen.
Sprog > Ikke-vesterlandske sprog.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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