Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia
Edited by Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 37] 1997. x, 296 pp.
Nicholas Reid
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicholas Reid plays a role.
Title
Subjects Australian languages | Discourse studies | Morphology | Pragmatics | Semantics
Articles
2002 10. Sit right down the back: Serialized posture verbs in Ngan’gityemerri and other Northern Australian languages The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 239–267 | Chapter
1997 Preface Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia, Harvey, Mark and Nicholas Reid (eds.), pp. vii ff. | Miscellaneous
1997 Introduction Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia, Harvey, Mark and Nicholas Reid (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Miscellaneous
1997 Class and Classifier in Ngan'gityemerri Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia, Harvey, Mark and Nicholas Reid (eds.), pp. 165 ff. | Article
1987 Ensuring the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages into the 21st century Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:1, pp. 143–157 | Article
There were over 200 distinct languages in Australia at the time of European settlement. Today less than 40 of these are still being passed on to new generations, and all of these are under threat of extinction. Aboriginal people are struggling to adapt themselves to the massive European presence… read more