UID:
almahu_9949179570902882
Format:
1 online resource (297 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-31375-8
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9786613313751
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90-272-7861-X
Series Statement:
Typological studies in language, v. 15
Content:
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.
Note:
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.
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Figure and ground in Rembarrnga complex sentences / Grahman R McKay -- Mood and subordination in Kuniyanti / William B Mc Gregor -- Participle sentences in Wakiman / Anthony Cook – Complex sentences in Martuthunira / Alan Dench -- Switch-reference in Mparntwe Arrernte (aranda): form, function, and problems of identity / David Wilkins -- Verb serialisation and the circumstantial construction in Yankunytjatjara / Cliff Goddard -- Some features of Manjiljarra nominalised relative clauses / Mark Clendon -- Case and complementiser suffixes in Warlpiri / Jane Simpson – Odd topic marking in Kayardild / Nicholas Evans – Affixes of motion and direction in Adnyamathanha / Dorothy Tunbridge.
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English with some Australian Aboriginal language.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-55619-016-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-2887-6
Language:
English
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