Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Austin
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| Titolo: |
Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Austin
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 499/.15 |
| Soggetto topico: | Australian languages - Sentences |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
AustinPeter
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| 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: | COMPLEX SENTENCE CONSTRUCTIONS IN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; FIGURE AND GROUND IN REMBARRNGA COMPLEX SENTENCES; MOOD AND SUBORDINATION IN KUNIYANTI; PARTICIPLE SENTENCES IN WAKIMAN; COMPLEXSENTENCESIN MARTUTHUNIRA; SWITCH-REFERENCE IN MPARNTWE ARRERNTE(ARANDA): FORM, FUNCTION, AND PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY; VERB SERIALISATION AND THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN YANKUNYTJATJARA; SOME FEATURES OF MANJILJARRA NOMINALISED RELATIVE CLAUSES; CASE AND COMPLEMENTISER SUFFIXES IN WARLPIRI |
| ODD TOPIC MARKING IN KAYARDILDAFFIXESOF MOTION AND DIRECTION IN ADNYAMATHANHA; INDEXOF LANGUAGES; INDEXOF NAMES | |
| 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. Among others descriptions of the (s |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages |
| ISBN: | 1-283-31375-8 |
| 9786613313751 | |
| 90-272-7861-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457758403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Typological studies in language ; ; v. 15.