| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 734 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge language surveys
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Cambridge language surveys.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 700-718) and index. |
| Contents |
Language situation in Australia -- Modelling the language situation -- Overview -- Vocabulary -- Case and other nominal suffixes -- Verbs -- Pronouns -- Bound pronouns -- Prefixing and fusion -- Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes -- Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles -- Phonology -- Genetic subgroups and small linguistic area -- Summary and conclusion. |
| Summary |
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Australian languages.
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Australian languages. |
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Australian languages -- Grammar.
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Australian languages -- Grammar. |
| Indexed Term |
Sprog Ikke-vesterlandske sprog. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dixon, Robert M.W. Australian languages. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2001037958 |
| ISBN |
0521473780 |
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9780521473781 |
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0511039573 (electronic book) |
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9780511039577 (electronic book) |
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0511148186 |
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