Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development

R. M. W. Dixon

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486869

Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. The areal distribution of most features is illustrated with more than 30 maps, showing that the languages tend to move in cyclic fashion with respect to many of the parameters. There is also an index of languages and language groups. Professor Dixon, a pioneering scholar in the field, brings an interesting perspective to this diverse and complex material.

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List of maps
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List of abbreviations and conventions
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Conventions followed
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List of languages and language groups
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1 - The language situation in Australia
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2 - Modelling the language situation
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3 - Overview
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4 - Vocabulary
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5 - Case and other nominal suffixes
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6 - Verbs
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7 - Pronouns
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8 - Bound pronouns
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9 - Prefixing and fusion
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10 - Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes
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11 - Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles
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12 - Phonology
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13 - Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas
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14 - Summary and conclusion
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References
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Index of languages, dialects and language groups
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Subject index
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-xii

List of maps
pp xiii-xiv

List of abbreviations and conventions
pp xv-xvi

Preface
pp xvii-xxi

Acknowledgements
pp xxii-xxiii

Conventions followed
pp xxiv-xxix

List of languages and language groups
pp xxx-xlii

1 - The language situation in Australia
pp 1-19

2 - Modelling the language situation
pp 20-54

3 - Overview
pp 55-95

4 - Vocabulary
pp 96-130

5 - Case and other nominal suffixes
pp 131-175

6 - Verbs
pp 176-242

7 - Pronouns
pp 243-336

8 - Bound pronouns
pp 337-401

9 - Prefixing and fusion
pp 402-448

10 - Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes
pp 449-514

11 - Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles
pp 515-546

12 - Phonology
pp 547-658

13 - Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas
pp 659-689

14 - Summary and conclusion
pp 690-699

References
pp 700-718

Index of languages, dialects and language groups
pp 719-730

Subject index
pp 731-734

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