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The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha

William Forshaw

Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity and diversity of the world’s languages. This book examines the acquisition of complex morphology of Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic language of Northern Australia. It considers semi-naturalistic data from five… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 30] 2021. xvi, 171 pp.

Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language: An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication

Murray Garde

The study of person reference stands at the cross-roads of linguistics, anthropology and psychology. As one aspect of an ethnography of communication, this book deals with a single problem — how one knows who is being talked about in conversation — from a rich and varied ethnographic perspective.… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 11] 2013. xx, 274 pp.

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages

Edited by Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality. The papers are based on individual fieldwork and describe a wide range of Australian languages of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 104] 2008. x, 239 pp.

Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method

Edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch

This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249] 2004. xii, 377 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake

Edited by Anna Siewierska and Jae Jung Song

The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 38] 1998. 395 pp.

Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia

Edited by Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid

This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 37] 1997. x, 296 pp.

A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi

William B. McGregor

This volume sets out to provide a comprehensive description of the grammar of Gooniyandi, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the southern-central Kimberley region of Western Australia. It covers phonetics and phonology, word phrase and clause structure, and the semantics of closed-class grammatical… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 22] 1990. xx, 618 pp.

Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages

Edited by Peter Austin

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… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 15] 1988. vii, 289 pp.

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 3

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the… read more

[Not in series, HAL 3] 1983. xxiv, 531 pp. + 5 maps

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 2

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

[Not in series, HAL 2] 1981. xxiv, 427pp. + 6 maps

Handbook of Australian Languages: 3 Volumes (set)

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

[Not in series, HAL S] 1979. V.1: 1979, xiv, 392pp. + 4 maps; V.2: 1981, xxiv, 427pp. + 6 maps; V.3: 1983, xxiv, 531 pp. + 5 maps

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 1

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. In the introduction the editors discuss some of the recurrent features of… read more

[Not in series, HAL 1] 1979. xviii, 390 pp. 4 maps