Australian languages : their nature and development / R.M.W. Dixon.
Australian languages : their nature and development / R.M.W. Dixon.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N499.15/18 , 499.15/521
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English
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xlii, 734 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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/a...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2002.
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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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. The areal distri...
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Australian languages : their nature and development / R.M.W. Dixon.
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Cambridge language surveys.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N499.15/18 , 499.15/521
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74VvjO7JXq5O
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0521473780
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499.15
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991015118029702626
