Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Peter Austin (Ed.)
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 in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point of view. The papers draw on data from widely distributed and, in some instances, previously undescribed languages. Among others descriptions of the (so-far) poorly known non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia, as well as Pama-Nyungan languages central and northern Australia are included in this volume.
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Ano:
1988
Edição:
1st
Editora:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
296
ISBN 10:
9027228876
ISBN 13:
9789027228871
Série:
Typological Studies in Language 15
Arquivo:
PDF, 25.39 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1988