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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
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
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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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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
The Structure of Language
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Authors: Emma L. Pavey
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity we are undertaking, forming words and sentences in a split second. This