The Oxford guide to Australian languages /

This book is a wide-ranging reference work covering the more than 550 Indigenous languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology and classification; linguistic structures; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers sketches of a se...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bowern, Claire, 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Inc, [2023]
Series:Oxford guides to the world's languages.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Background
  • Part II: Structures
  • A. Phonetics and phonology
  • B. Morphosyntax
  • C. Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
  • Part III: Sociolinguistics and language variation
  • Part IV: Language in the community
  • Part V: Structural sketches of languages, subgroups, and families.