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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 ...
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.
Bantu languages use different combinations of the approximately 24 different Proto-Bantu noun classes. [2] The language with the highest number of documented noun classes is Ganda, which utilizes 21 of the 24 noun classes. [2] This ranges all the way to zero, which is the case in Komo D23, whose noun class system has faded out over time. [2]
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 ...
In linguistic typology, the case hierarchy denotes an order of grammatical cases. If a language has a particular case, it also has all cases lower than this particular case. To put it another way, if a language lacks a particular case, it is also unlikely to develop cases higher than this particular case.
There are generally distinctive features of phonology, grammar, words and meanings, as well as language use in Australian Aboriginal English, [3] compared with Australian English. The language is also often accompanied by a lot of non-verbal cues. [4] Negative attitudes that exist in Australian society towards AbE have negative effects on ...
In rare cases, such as the Australian Aboriginal language Nhanda, different nominal elements may follow a different case-alignment template. In Nhanda, common nouns have ergative-absolutive alignment—like in most Australian languages—but most pronouns instead follow a nominative-accusative template.
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 ...