This book presents new data and analyses of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Australia. By virtue of the technical format employed, the book makes Kayardild accessible to mainstream formal linguistic theory, and so will appeal to a broad new audience as well as to those who know Kayardild well.
This book presents new data and analyses of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Australia. By virtue of the technical format employed, the book makes Kayardild accessible to mainstream formal linguistic theory, and so will appeal to a broad new audience as well as to those who know Kayardild well.
Having spent nine months in the field with the last speakers of Kayardild, Erich R. Round received his doctorate from Yale University in 2009 and completed a post-doctoral appointment at Yale in 2011. He is now Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he continues his research on typological and theoretical morphology and phonology.
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1: Introduction 2: Morphological Structures 3: Specific Stems and Suffixes 4: Correlates of Inflection 5: The Clause and VP 6: The DP 7: DP Juxtaposition 8: Feature Percolation 9: Discussion 10: Particles 11: Constraint-based Realizational Morphology Appendix References Index