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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453355703321

Autore

McGregor William <1952->

Titolo

Verb classification in Australian languages / / by William B. McGregor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2002

ISBN

3-11-087087-8

Edizione

[Reprint 2013]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (557 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; ; 25

Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 25

Classificazione

EE 1810

Disciplina

499/.15

Soggetti

Australian languages - Verb phrase

Australian languages - Semantics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [473]-505) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of maps -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Gooniyandi verb classifier system -- Chapter 3. CVC-based verb category systems -- Chapter 4. Comparison of verb category systems -- Chapter 5. Verb class systems: conjugations -- Chapter 6. The grammar of verb superclassifying constructions -- Chapter 7. Related grammatical phenomena -- Chapter 8. Evolution of verb classification in Australia -- Chapter 9. Verb classification in discourse: a preliminary investigation -- Chapter 10. Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Basic information on Australian languages mentioned in this book -- Appendix 2 Australian phonologies and orthographies -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index