Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages

Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages / edited by Peter Austin.

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...

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Other Authors: Austin, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988.
Series:Typological studies in language ; 15.
Subjects:
Australian languages > Sentences.
Australian languages.
Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Aboriginal Australians > Languages.
languages (study discipline)
language (general communication)
linguistics.
Rembarrnga language N73.
Wagiman language N27.
Martuthunira language W35.
Arrernte language C8.
Yankunytjatjara language C4.
Mantjintjarra language A33.
Warlpiri language C15.
Kayardild language G35.
Adnyamathanha language L10.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Oceanic & Australian Languages.
Australian languages
Language and languages
Linguistics
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of 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.
  • Odd topic marking in kayardildaffixesof motion and direction in adnyamathanha; indexof languages; indexof names.

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