Australian languages : their nature and development
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Australian languages : their nature and development
(Cambridge language surveys)
Cambridge University Press, 2007, c2002
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 700-718) and indexes
"First published 2002, This digitally printed version 2007"--T.p. verso
"Paperback Re-issue"--p. 4 of cover
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this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. The areal distribution of most features is illustrated with more than 30 maps, showing that the languages tend to move in cyclic fashion with respect to many of the parameters. There is also an index of languages and language groups. Professor Dixon, a pioneering scholar in the field, brings an interesting perspective to this diverse and complex material.
Table of Contents
- List of maps
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions followed
- List of languages and language groups
- 1. The language situation in Australia
- 2. Modelling the language situation
- 3. Overview
- 4. Vocabulary
- 5. Case and other nominal suffixes
- 6. Verbs
- 7. Pronouns
- 8. Bound pronouns
- 9. Prefixing and fusion
- 10. Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes
- 11. Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles
- 12. Phonology
- 13. Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas
- 14. Summary and conclusion
- References
- Index of languages, dialects and language groups
- Subject index.
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