03410nam 2200685Ia 450 991081888860332120200520144314.01-316-08475-21-280-41689-00-511-17777-10-511-03957-30-511-14818-60-511-33022-70-511-48686-30-511-05307-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)99100000000000077920010711d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAustralian languages their nature and development /R.M.W. Dixon1st ed.Cambridge, U.K. ;New York Cambridge University Press20021 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; References; INDEX OF LANGUAGES, DIALECTS AND LANGUAGE GROUPS; SUBJECT 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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this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. W110045MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818888603321Australian languages541489UNINA