Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
( Typological Studies in Language )
Publication series ： Typological Studies in Language
Author： Peter Austin
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 1988
E-ISBN: 9789027278616
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027228871
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Language： ENG
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Description
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.