Verb classification in Australian languages / by William B. McGregor
- Bib ID:
- 1631145
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McGregor, William
- Description:
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- Berlin : New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
- xxv, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 3110171414 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- Series:
- Empirical approaches to language typology ; 25.
- Summary:
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"Description of the major formal and semantic characteristics of verb superclassification systems in Australia, identifying the parameters of similarity and variation; hypothesises about the historical origins and subsequent development of the systems, culminating in degrammaticalisation in some languages; include some suggestions regarding the grammatical relations involved in verb superclassification, in an attempt to situate it within the wider context of grammatical phenomena"; includes discussion of the conjugation class system characteristics of Pama-Nyungan languages; use of verb classification systems, in the Gooniyandi language.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Gooniyandi verb classifier system
- 3. CVC-based verb category systems
- 4. Comparison of verb category systems
- 5. Verb class systems: conjugations
- 6. The grammar of verb superclassifying constructions
- 7. Related grammatical phenomena
- 8. Evolution of verb classification in Australia
- 9. Verb classification in discourse: a preliminary investigation
- 10. Conclusions
- App. 1. Basic information on Australian languages mentioned in this book
- App. 2. Australian phonologies and orthographies.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-505) and indexes.
- English.
- Subject:
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- Australian languages -- Verb phrase
- Australian languages -- Semantics
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
- Nyulnyulan language family
- Pama-Nyungan language family
- Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Verbs
- Gooniyandi / Gunian language (K6) (WA SE 52-09)
- Nyulnyul / Nyul Nyul language (K13) (WA SE 51-02)
- Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax - Parts of speech
- Copyright:
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