Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Published on 1. January 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
289 pages
978-1-55619-017-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. Among others descriptions of the (so-far) poorly known non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia, as well as Pama-Nyungan languages central and northern Australia are included in this volume.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-017-9 (9781556190179)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Austin, Peter); 3. Figure and Ground in Rembarrnga Complex Sentences (by McKay, Graham R.); 4. Mood and Subodination in Kuniyanti (by McGregor, William B.); 5. Participle Sentences in Wakiman (by Cook, Anthony); 6. Complex Sentences in Martuthunira (by Dench, Alan); 7. Switch-reference in Mparntwe Arrernte (Aranda): Form, Function, and Problems of Identity (by Wilkins, David P.); 8. Verb Serialisation and the Circumstantial Construction in Yankunytjatjara (by Goddard, Cliff); 9. Some Features of Manjiljarra Nominalised Relative Clauses (by Clendon, Mark); 10. Case and Complementiser Suffixes in Warlpiri (by Simpson, Jane); 11. Odd Topic Marking in Kayadild (by Evans, Nicholas); 12. Affixes of Motion and Direction in Adnyamathanha (by Tunbridge, Dorothy); 13. Index of Languages; 14. Index of Names