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Handbook of Australian Languages
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and …
Complementation
This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and meanings. It shows how languages differ in …
The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia
This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred people. It has only two open …
Words of Our Country
Grammars in Contact
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may …
We Used to Eat People
Living in a small reed hut within a traditional village on Taveuni, the “garden isle” of Fiji, deep in the South Seas. Studying the language, how words and grammar are brought to …
Handbook of Australian Languages
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and …
Handbook of Australian Languages
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and …
Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects
In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an …
Studies in Evidentiality
In a number of languages, the speaker must specify the evidence for every statement whether seen, or heard, or inferred from indirect evidence, or learnt from someone else. This …
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Living in a reed hut on Taveuni--the "e;garden isle"e; of Fiji--the author studied the native language and carefully observed their traditions until he was accepted as a …
Adjective Classes
This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the nature …