"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…
The present work is intended to provide a summary of the means used to express case relations in Australian languages. It is purely descriptive and does not incorporate any attempt at typological or historical explanation, though part of the ultimate raison d'être for the work …
The languages of Australia
by Dixon, R.M.W., (Robert Malcolm Ward)
fromCambridge language surveys
Covers historical/comparative, social, grammatical and phonological characteristics, relationships and change among Australian languages.
