Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages

Download or read book Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages written by Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented to symposium at Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1974; five grammatical topics discussed; The derivational affix having; ergative, locative and instrumental case inflections; the bivalent suffix -ku; are Australian languages syntactically nominativeergative or nominative-accusative; simple and compound verbs; conjugation by auxiliaries in Australian verbal systems; several papers on other grammatical topics also included; All papers are seperately catalogued.