03389nam 22006732 450 991044982420332120151005020624.01-316-08475-21-280-41689-00-511-17777-10-511-03957-30-511-14818-60-511-33022-70-511-48686-30-511-05307-X(CKB)1000000000000779(EBL)201769(OCoLC)70724682(SSID)ssj0000107695(PQKBManifestationID)11108951(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107695(PQKBWorkID)10016471(PQKB)10077625(UkCbUP)CR9780511486869(MiAaPQ)EBC201769(Au-PeEL)EBL201769(CaPaEBR)ebr10023549(CaONFJC)MIL41689(EXLCZ)99100000000000077920090226d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAustralian languages their nature and development /R.M.W. Dixon[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (xlii, 734 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge language surveysTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-04604-1 0-521-47378-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 700-718) and index.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; ReferencesINDEX OF LANGUAGES, DIALECTS AND LANGUAGE GROUPSSUBJECT INDEXAboriginal 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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this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.Cambridge language surveys.Australian languagesAustralian languagesGrammarAustralian languages.Australian languagesGrammar.499/.15Dixon Robert M. W.110045UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910449824203321Australian languages541489UNINA