Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages / / editor, Peter Austin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972316003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 1988
• ISBN: 1-283-31375-8; 9786613313751; 90-272-7861-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 15
• Classificazione: EE 1810
• Altri autori (Persone): AustinPeter
• Disciplina: 499/.15
• Soggetti: Australian languages - Sentences; 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; Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on a Workshop on Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages held in conjunction with the Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference at La Trobe University in 1983.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Figure and ground in Rembarrnga complex sentences / Grahman R McKay -- Mood and subordination in Kuniyanti / William B Mc Gregor -- Participle sentences in Wakiman / Anthony Cook – Complex sentences in Martuthunira / Alan Dench -- Switch-reference in Mparntwe Arrernte (aranda): form, function, and problems of identity / David Wilkins -- Verb serialisation and the circumstantial construction in Yankunytjatjara / Cliff Goddard -- Some features of Manjiljarra nominalised relative clauses / Mark Clendon -- Case and ; complementiser suffixes in Warlpiri / Jane Simpson – Odd topic marking in Kayardild / Nicholas Evans – Affixes of motion and direction in Adnyamathanha / Dorothy Tunbridge.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point of view. The papers draw on data from widely distributed and, in some instances, previously undescribed languages.