Verb Classification in Australian Languages / / William B. McGregor.
This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical orig...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of maps
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The Gooniyandi verb classifier system
- Chapter 3. CVC-based verb category systems
- Chapter 4. Comparison of verb category systems
- Chapter 5. Verb class systems: conjugations
- Chapter 6. The grammar of verb superclassifying constructions
- Chapter 7. Related grammatical phenomena
- Chapter 8. Evolution of verb classification in Australia
- Chapter 9. Verb classification in discourse: a preliminary investigation
- Chapter 10. Conclusions
- Appendix 1. Basic information on Australian languages mentioned in this book
- Appendix 2 Australian phonologies and orthographies
- Notes
- References
- Author index
- Language index
- Subject index