Provides a thorough overview of Australian languages including language endangerment, language contact and language loss. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other English varieties are also discussed.
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The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, t…
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, t…
"Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects may be used to represent story characters. This detailed study of Arandic sand stories takes a m…
"The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to c…
This book provides an insightful and highly readable account both of the social setting in which the languages are spoken and of their main structural features.
"Description of the major formal and semantic characteristics of verb superclassification systems in Australia, identifying the parameters of similarity and variation; hypothesises about the historical origins and subsequent development of the systems, culminating in degrammatic…
This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concernin…
