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UNINA9910818888603321 |
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Autore |
Dixon Robert M. W |
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Titolo |
Australian languages : their nature and development / / R.M.W. Dixon |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
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1-316-08475-2 |
1-280-41689-0 |
0-511-17777-1 |
0-511-03957-3 |
0-511-14818-6 |
0-511-33022-7 |
0-511-48686-3 |
0-511-05307-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xlii, 734 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge language surveys |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Australian languages |
Australian languages - Grammar |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 700-718) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; MAPS; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONVENTIONS FOLLOWED; 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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