The Languages of AustraliaCUP Archive, 24/07/1980 - 576 من الصفحات A study of the more than two hundred different Aboriginal languages of Australia. Professor Dixon deals first with the general character of these languages, and their use and role in Australia today. He stresses that they are in no sense 'primitive' languages, but have a rich and complex grammar with the many subtle and distinctive features. He goes on to demonstrate this in the first-ever study of their genetic relationships, probable origins and historical development, and their grammatical and phonological behaviour. This is in many ways a pioneering work, and a fundamental one. The Press has already published two major scholarly studies by Professor Dixon of individual Australian languages, Dyirbal and Yidin. He offers here the synthesis that they pointed towards, provisional still in many of its details, but sufficiently convincing in outline to stimulate the next stage of professional research, to provide the general linguist with the kind of survey to the interested Australian something of the extraordinary linguistic heritage of the continent, now and for some time past seriously at risk. |
المحتوى
Tribe and language | 18 |
Speech and song styles | 47 |
The role of language in Aboriginal Australian society today | 69 |
Vocabulary | 97 |
Phonology | 125 |
Phonological change | 195 |
Classification of Australian languages | 220 |
Word classes | 266 |
Nouns | 292 |
Pronouns | 327 |
Verbs | 378 |
Syntax | 438 |
Summary | 467 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Aboriginal added addition adjective affix apical appears Australian languages bound changes chapter clause common conjugation consonant continent contrast corresponding cover dative derivational described dialect discussion distinct disyllabic dropped Dyirbal English ergative evidence example fact final function further genetic genitive give given grammatical Guugu Yimidhirr identical indicates inflection initial instance intransitive involve laminal lateral linguistic locative marking meaning mentioned modern languages monosyllabic nasal nominal northern Notes noun object occur opposition original past pattern peripheral person phoneme phonological Pitjantjatjara position possible prefixing probably pronominal pronouns recent refer Rembarrnga roots semantic sentence similar single sometimes songs sounds South speakers spoken stem stop structure style suffix suggests syllable syntactic tongue transitive tribes usually verb verbal vocabulary vowel Warlpiri Warrgamay Western Desert words Yidiny