Word order in Austronesian from north to south and west to east

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 349-391

  Donohue, Mark ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

"Papuan"; Adjective; Adposition; Austronesian; Contact; Demonstrative; Genitive; Linguistic area; Numeral; Relative clause; Substrate; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949175491     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LINGTY.2007.026     Document Type: Review

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