| Description |
1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Series |
Typological studies in language ; 15 |
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Typological studies in language ; 15
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| Contents |
COMPLEX SENTENCE CONSTRUCTIONS IN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; FIGURE AND GROUND IN REMBARRNGA COMPLEX SENTENCES; MOOD AND SUBORDINATION IN KUNIYANTI; PARTICIPLE SENTENCES IN WAKIMAN; COMPLEXSENTENCESIN MARTUTHUNIRA; SWITCH-REFERENCE IN MPARNTWE ARRERNTE(ARANDA): FORM, FUNCTION, AND PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY; VERB SERIALISATION AND THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN YANKUNYTJATJARA; SOME FEATURES OF MANJILJARRA NOMINALISED RELATIVE CLAUSES; CASE AND COMPLEMENTISER SUFFIXES IN WARLPIRI |
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Odd topic marking in kayardildaffixesof motion and direction in adnyamathanha; indexof languages; indexof names |
| Summary |
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point of view. The papers draw on data from widely distributed and, in some instances, previously undescribed languages. Among others descriptions of the (s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (282-283 pages) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Australian languages -- Sentences
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Australian languages.
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Language and languages.
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Linguistics.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
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languages (study discipline)
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language (general communication)
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linguistics.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Oceanic & Australian Languages.
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Australian languages
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Language and languages
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Linguistics
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Austin, Peter
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| LC no. |
87029971 |
| ISBN |
9789027278616 |
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902727861X |
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1283313758 |
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9781283313759 |
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9786613313751 |
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6613313750 |
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