18.3390, Books: Typology/General Linguistics: Dixon

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Title: Australian Languages 
Subtitle: Their Nature and Development 
Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: R. M. W. Dixon

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521046046 Pages: 776 Price: U.K. £ 45.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521046046 Pages: 776 Price: U.S. $ 85.00


Abstract:

Note: This is the paperback edition of a previously announced book.

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unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon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. The areal distribution of
most features is illustrated with more than 30 maps, showing that the
languages tend to move in cyclic fashion with respect to many of the
parameters. There is also an index of languages and language groups.
Professor Dixon, a pioneering scholar in the field, brings an interesting
perspective to this diverse and complex material. 



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. 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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