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Tables of Contents for Australian Languages
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of maps
xiii
List of abbreviations and conventions
xv
Preface
xvii
Acknowledgements
xxii
Conventions followed
xxiv
List of languages and language groups
xxx
The language situation in Australia
1
19
A partial picture
1
2
Social organisation and lifestyle
3
1
The languages
4
3
Prehistory
7
5
Diffusion of non-linguistic traits
12
8
Modelling the language situation
20
35
Preliminaries
20
11
Assumptions
20
1
Types of similarity
21
1
Family trees
22
2
Diffusion
24
3
The 50 per cent equilibrium level
27
4
The Punctuated Equilibrium model
31
4
Linguistic equilibrium
32
1
Punctuation
33
2
The Australian scene
35
5
Split and merger of languages
40
15
Language split
40
1
Language merger?
41
3
Appendix The `Pama-Nyungan' idea
44
11
Overview
55
41
Semantics
56
7
Actual/potential
56
1
Volitional/non-volitional
57
1
Primacy of generic terms
57
6
Phonology
63
3
Grammar
66
25
Word classes
66
1
Nouns and adjectives
67
1
Shifters: pronouns, demonstratives and more
68
2
Verbs
70
1
Inflection
71
4
Derivation
75
2
Possession
77
1
Clause structure and constituent order
78
1
Commands
79
1
Questions
80
1
Negation
81
5
Complex sentences
86
5
Special speech styles
91
5
Vocabulary
96
35
Lexical meanings
98
2
Lexemes
100
24
Flora and fauna
102
4
Body parts
106
6
Kin terms
112
1
Artefacts
113
1
Other nouns
114
1
Adjectives
115
2
Verbs
117
7
Observations
124
7
Phonological observations
125
4
Possible cognates between word classes
129
1
The status of A1, West Torres
129
2
Case and other nominal suffixes
131
45
Functions of noun phrases
132
11
Core clausal functions
132
1
Peripheral clausal functions
133
5
Phrasal functions
138
4
Local functions
142
1
Case attachment
143
2
Interpretation
145
7
Double case
147
5
Case forms
152
21
Variation across NP constituents
153
2
Accusative
155
2
Ergative, locative and instrumental
157
9
Purposive, dative, genitive and allative
166
2
Ablative and causal
168
2
Comitative and privative
170
1
Aversive
171
1
Summary of relations between forms
171
2
Conclusion
173
3
Verbs
176
67
Transitivity
176
5
Manner adverbs
181
2
Simple and complex verbs
183
18
Types of verbal organisation
187
10
A cyclic pattern of change
197
4
Verbal derivations
201
8
Semantic derivations
201
1
Syntactic derivations
202
5
Deriving verbs from nominals
207
2
Verb forms and inflections
209
28
Forms of inflections
213
2
Forms of verbs and development of conjugations
215
9
Loss of conjugations
224
10
Extended fusion
234
3
Nominal suffixes onto verbs
237
2
Copula and verbless clauses
239
4
Pronouns
243
94
Pronoun systems
243
3
Number-segmentable pronoun systems
246
16
Forms
253
9
Non-number-segmentable pronoun systems
262
23
Forms
266
19
The evolution of pronoun systems
285
14
Diffusion
292
2
Recurrent features of change and reanalysis
294
5
Pronominal case forms
299
20
Stage A
300
7
Stage B
307
3
Stage C-i
310
2
Stage C-ii
312
2
Stage C-iii
314
1
Summary
314
1
Non-core functions
315
4
Reflexives and reciprocals
319
8
Interrogatives/indefinites
327
8
Demonstratives
335
2
Bound pronouns
337
65
What are bound pronouns?
341
3
The predicate arguments involved
344
7
Which arguments?
344
1
How many in a clause?
345
2
Case systems
347
4
Choices
351
2
Forms
353
12
Free and bound pronominal forms
354
9
Zero realisation
363
2
Categories
365
5
Person
365
2
Number
367
3
Position
370
7
Number of positions
370
1
Order of transitive arguments
371
3
Location in the clause
374
3
Links with other categories
377
2
Patterns of development
379
15
Possessive bound pronouns
394
8
Prefixing and fusion
402
47
Verbs, coverbs and pronominal placement
409
7
Structure of the verb in prefixing languages
416
7
Valency-changing affixes
418
1
Directional markers
419
1
Negation and number
420
3
Nominal incorporation
423
6
Pronominal prefixes and TAM
429
8
Pronominal prefixes to transitive verbs
437
10
Implications
447
2
Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes
449
66
Generic nouns and classifiers
454
6
Semantics
456
2
Grammar
458
2
Feminine suffix -gan
460
1
Gender in free pronouns
461
2
Noun classes in non-prefixing languages
463
5
Nominal prefixes in prefixing languages
468
2
Noun classes in prefixing languages
470
38
Noun classes and number
473
1
Where noun classes are marked
474
11
Semantics
485
3
Markedness
488
4
Forms
492
5
Development
497
9
Loss
506
2
Noun classes and case marking
508
5
The loss of case marking
509
4
Summary
513
2
Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles
515
32
Development of morphological marking
515
5
Syntactic pivots
520
10
Antipassive and passive
530
6
*-dharri and other suffixes that can mark antipassive and/or passive function
531
5
Shifts in profile
536
9
Summary
545
2
Phonology
547
112
Canonical systems
548
10
Consonants
550
2
Vowels
552
1
Phonotactics
553
4
Stress
557
1
Laminals
558
7
Apicals, including rhotics
565
24
Stops and nasals (and laterals)
567
6
Rhotics
573
8
The apical problem
581
8
Initial dropping and medial strengthening
589
13
Loss and lenition of initial consonant
593
2
Loss or shortening of first vowel
595
2
Changes affecting C2
597
1
Vowel copying and metathesis
598
1
Changes at V2
599
1
An overall perspective
600
2
Stop contrasts, and fricatives
602
13
Historical development, and loss
603
2
Occurrence
605
10
Glottals
615
4
Other types of change
619
9
Assimilation
619
6
Dissimilation
625
2
Further changes
627
1
Vowel systems
628
15
Vowel quality
628
3
Evolution of additional vowels
631
3
Occurrence
634
4
Vowel length
638
5
On the margin of a word
643
16
Vowel-final languages
644
4
Consonant-final languages
648
5
Non-prototypical consonant clusters
653
6
Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas
659
31
Some genetic subgroups
659
9
Small linguistic areas
668
12
Origin places and directions of expansion
680
6
Shifting isoglosses
686
4
Summary and conclusion
690
10
Outline of development
691
4
Diffusional patterns and cyclic change
695
5
References
700
19
Index of languages, dialects and language groups
719
12
Subject index
731