Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Editor
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.
[Typological Studies in Language, 15] 1988. vii, 289 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. 1
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IntroductionPeter Austin | p. 3
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Figure and Ground in Rembarrnga Complex SentencesGraham R. McKay | p. 7
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Mood and Subodination in KuniyantiWilliam B. McGregor | p. 37
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Participle Sentences in WakimanAnthony Cook | p. 69
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Complex Sentences in MartuthuniraAlan Dench | p. 97
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Switch-reference in Mparntwe Arrernte (Aranda): Form, Function, and Problems of IdentityDavid P. Wilkins | p. 141
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Verb Serialisation and the Circumstantial Construction in YankunytjatjaraCliff Goddard | p. 177
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Some Features of Manjiljarra Nominalised Relative ClausesMark Clendon | p. 193
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Case and Complementiser Suffixes in WarlpiriJane Simpson | p. 205
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Odd Topic Marking in KayadildNicholas Evans | p. 219
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Affixes of Motion and Direction in AdnyamathanhaDorothy Tunbridge | p. 267
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Index of Languages | p. 285
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Index of Names | p. 287
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Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General