Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages
Edited by Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 104] 2008. x, 239 pp.
Brett Baker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brett Baker plays a role.
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Subjects Australian languages | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Anti-scope prefix order and zero-marked obliques: Unusual outcomes of a grammaticalization pathway Diachronica 37:2, pp. 133–177 | Article
A number of indigenous languages of northern Australia have complex systems of noun class prefixation incorporating the formal realization of case or topicality, as well as class. The markers of case and topicality occur inside the marking of class, in an unexpected position according to… read more
2008 The interpretation of complex nominal expressions in Southeast Arnhem Land languages Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages, Mushin, Ilana and Brett Baker (eds.), pp. 135–166 | Article
In this chapter, I examine the function of noun class prefixes in several non-Pama-Nyungan languages. In these languages, prefixes show several alternants. I show that these alternants are distributed according to discourse functions “topic” and “focus”, making them somewhat like articles in… read more
2008 Discourse and grammar in Australian languages Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages, Mushin, Ilana and Brett Baker (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article
2007 16. Complex predication and the coverb construction Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 209–219 | Article
2007 11. Ethnobiological classification and the environment in Northern Australia Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure, Schalley, Andrea C. and Drew Khlentzos (eds.), pp. 239–265 | Article
2004 Stem forms and paradigm reshaping in Gunwinyguan Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 313 ff. | Article