Australian Languages

Informationen zum Autor R. M. W. Dixon is Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Victoria. Klappentext Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia. Zusammenfassung 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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages!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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of maps; List of abbreviations and conventions; Preface; Acknowledgements; Conventions followed; List of languages and language groups; 1. The language situation in Australia; 2. Modelling the language situation; 3. Overview; 4. Vocabulary; 5. Case and other nominal suffixes; 6. Verbs; 7. Pronouns; 8. Bound pronouns; 9. Prefixing and fusion; 10. Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes; 11. Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles; 12. Phonology; 13. Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas; 14. Summary and conclusion; References; Index of languages, dialects and language groups; Subject index.

Klappentext
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.

Zusammenfassung
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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this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.

Inhalt
List of maps; List of abbreviations and conventions; Preface; Acknowledgements; Conventions followed; List of languages and language groups; 1. The language situation in Australia; 2. Modelling the language situation; 3. Overview; 4. Vocabulary; 5. Case and other nominal suffixes; 6. Verbs; 7. Pronouns; 8. Bound pronouns; 9. Prefixing and fusion; 10. Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes; 11. Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles; 12. Phonology; 13. Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas; 14. Summary and conclusion; References; Index of languages, dialects and language groups; Subject index.

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