Iwaidjan, a very un-Australian language family

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 91-142

  Evans, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agreement; Alignment; Australian; Cross reference; Fricative; Gender; Head marking; Impersonal constructions; Iwaidjan; Kinship verbs; Liquids; Mutation; Phoneme inventory; Polysynthesis; Possessive constructions; Prepositions; Proprietive; Sandhi

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744445184     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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