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His further work on Australian languages was published in Edible gender, mother-in-law style, and other grammatical wonders: Studies in Dyirbal, Yidiñ and Warrgamay, 2015. His further influential monographs include work on English grammar, especially A new approach to English grammar (1991, revised edition 2005), and Making New Words ...
Australian English is relatively homogeneous when compared with British and American English. The major varieties of Australian English are sociocultural rather than regional. They are divided into 3 main categories: general, broad and cultivated. There are a number of Australian English-based creole languages. Differing significantly from ...
Nominals are a common feature of Indigenous Australian languages, many of which do not categorically differentiate nouns from adjectives. Some features of nominals in some Australian languages include: the ability to take grammatical case marking, the ability to function substantively (head a noun phrase), and
In linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each category there are two or more possible values (sometimes called grammemes), which are normally mutually exclusive. Frequently encountered grammatical categories include: Case, varying according to function.
Yapa-warnti child- ABS. PL pa-lu IND -they tjurtu- karrarla dust- AVERSIVE laparnkanja ran away natji-karti. cave- ALL Yapa-warnti pa-lu tjurtu- karrarla laparnkanja natji-karti. child-ABS.PL IND-they dust- AVERSIVE {ran away} cave-ALL The children ran into the cave because of the dust storm. The suffix -karrarla indicates that the action (running away) was carried out in order to avoid the ...
A tripartite language does not maintain any syntactic or morphological equivalence (such as word order or grammatical case) between the core argument of intransitive verbs and either core argument of transitive verbs. In full tripartite alignment systems, this entails the agent argument of intransitive verbs always being treated differently ...
An Australian grammar : comprehending the principles and natural rules of the language, as spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter's River, Lake Macquarie, &c. New South Wales is a book written by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and published in Sydney in 1834. It is a grammar of the Awabakal language.
Perhaps the most noun classes in any Australian language are found in Yanyuwa, which has 16 noun classes, including nouns associated with food, trees and abstractions, in addition to separate classes for men and masculine things, women and feminine things. In the men's dialect, the classes for men and for masculine things have simplified to a ...