Grammatical Categories in Australian LanguagesPapers presented to symposium at Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1974; five grammatical topics discussed; The derivational affix having; ergative, locative and instrumental case inflections; the bivalent suffix -ku; are Australian languages syntactically nominativeergative or nominative-accusative; simple and compound verbs; conjugation by auxiliaries in Australian verbal systems; several papers on other grammatical topics also included; All papers are seperately catalogued. |
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Plenary Papers | 2 |
Phonological change in New England Terry Crowley | 19 |
a preliminary report James E Hoard Geoffrey N OGrady | 51 |
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accusative action adjectives affix agent Alawa allomorphs appears Arnhem Land Australian languages auxiliary unit boomerang case-marking Chinookan clitic co-reference complement compound conjugation consonant construction dative deleted derived dialects distinct Dixon Djamindjung dual Dyirbal Dyirbal language ergative example function genitive grammatical Gumbaynggir hierarchy indicate indirect object inflection instrumental intr intransitive kangaroo Lardil lexical Linguistics locative main clause man-ERG man-NOM mara marked marker mood morpheme morphological nana Ngandi Nganjaywana nominalised nominative normal noun phrase Nungali Nunggubuyu occur order-class paper paradigm passive person singular phonological plural prefix pronominal proprietive reference reflexive relative clause Ritharngu root rule second person semantic simple verb spear structure subordinate clause suffix surface syllable syntactic tense third person transformation transitive sentence transitive subject transitive verb underlying unmarked verb classes verb particles verb stem verbal vowel Walbiri Warluwara Warungu woman woman-NOM Wunambal Yidinj yūl-nu-Tu