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Title Grammatical categories in Australian languages / edited by R.M.W. Dixon
Published Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1976

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Description 776 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Linguistic series ; no.22
Linguistic series ; no.22
Linguistic series ; no.22
Contents Includes bibliographical references
Summary Papers presented to symposium at Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1974; five grammatical topics discussed; The derivational affix having; ergative, locative and instrumental case inflections; the bivalent suffix -ku; are Australian languages syntactically nominativeergative or nominative-accusative; simple and compound verbs; conjugation by auxiliaries in Australian verbal systems; several papers on other grammatical topics also included; All papers are seperately catalogued
Analysis Australian languages Grammar
Notes Simultaneously published, New Jersey: Humanities Press
Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference and index
Event [1976]
Notes Also issued online
Copy 4 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax - Affixes.
Language - Linguistics - Language classification.
Language - Semantics.
Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Nouns and ergatives.
Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Verbs.
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Classification.
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Grammar.
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
Australian languages -- Classification.
Australian languages -- Grammar.
Australian languages.
Author Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
LC no. 76056602
ISBN 0391006940
0391006959
0855750545
0855750553