LEADER 03296nam 22006492 450 001 9910777350703321 005 20230823224759.0 010 $a1-316-08475-2 010 $a1-280-41689-0 010 $a0-511-17777-1 010 $a0-511-03957-3 010 $a0-511-14818-6 010 $a0-511-33022-7 010 $a0-511-48686-3 010 $a0-511-05307-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000779 035 $a(EBL)201769 035 $a(OCoLC)70724682 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107695 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108951 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107695 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10016471 035 $a(PQKB)10077625 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511486869 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC201769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL201769 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10023549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL41689 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000779 100 $a20090226d2002|||| uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAustralian languages $etheir nature and development /$fR.M.W. Dixon 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xlii, 734 pages) $cillustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge language surveys 311 0 $a0-521-04604-1 311 0 $a0-521-47378-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 700-718) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aAboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. The areal distribution of most features is illustrated with more than 30 maps, showing that the languages tend to move in cyclic fashion with respect to many of the parameters. There is also an index of languages and language groups. Professor Dixon, a pioneering scholar in the field, brings an interesting perspective to this diverse and complex material. 410 0$aCambridge language surveys. 606 $aAustralian languages 606 $aAustralian languages$xGrammar 615 0$aAustralian languages. 615 0$aAustralian languages$xGrammar. 676 $a499/.15 700 $aDixon$b Robert M. W.$f1939-$0110045 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777350703321 996 $aAustralian languages$9541489 997 $aUNINA