R. M. W. Dixon

Australian Languages

Their Nature and Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 780
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1108g
• ISBN-13: 9780521046046
• ISBN-10: 0521046041
• Artikelnr.: 23133271

Autorenporträt

R. M. W. Dixon is Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Victoria.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
List of abbreviations and conventions
Preface
Acknowledgements
Conventions followed
List of 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.