02298cam a2200349 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025010001700066015001500083019002300098020001500121035002000136035001200156040003700168042000900205050002200214082001600236100002400252245007500276260005100351300004100402490003100443504005100474505045100525520069100976650002601667650003501693830003201728856008801760856007601848984002401924221386520120509162704.0010711s2002 nyu b 001 0 eng  a 2001037958 aGBA2-810071 a27566318z22903986 a0521473780 a(OCoLC)47706158 93347412 aDLCbengcDLCdDLCdOrLoB-BdNSL aanuc00aPL7001b.D48 200200a499/.152211 aDixon, Robert M. W.10aAustralian languages :btheir nature and development /cR.M.W. Dixon. aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2002. axlii, 734 p. :bill., maps ;c24 cm.1 aCambridge language surveys aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 a1. 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. aAboriginal 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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this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 a unique perspective to this diverse and complex material. 0aAustralian languages. 0aAustralian languagesxGrammar. 0aCambridge language surveys.423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/2001037958.html413Table of contentsuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam024/2001037958.html aANLcNL 499.15 D621