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Language: en
Pages: 517
Authors: Mark Harvey
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Gaagudju is a previously undescribed and now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. This grammar provides an overall description of the language. Austra
A Grammar of Gaagudju
Language: en
Pages: 524
Authors: Mark Harvey
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Background contact history of Gaagudju speakers; literature review; language owners; neighbouring languages - Amurdak, Bibinj Gunwok, Giimbiyu, Gonbudj, Limilng
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia.
Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages
Language: en
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This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets
Participles
Language: en
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Authors: Ksenia Shagal
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The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-fi