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| Preface | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Abbreviations and Conventions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is verb classification? | |
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| Towards a typology of classification | |
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| Superclassification and subclassification | |
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| Classes and categories | |
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| Classifiers and classifying constructions | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Understanding grammatical superclassification | |
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| A conceptual model | |
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| Distributional criteria for grammatical superclassification | |
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| An example: the Kijanoun class system | |
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| Verb superclassification Australian style | |
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| Semantic basis of verb superclassification | |
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| Fundamental parameters | |
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| On class, category, and classification meaning | |
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| Prediction and explanation | |
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| Aims and organisation | |
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| The Gooniyandi verb classifier system | |
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| Structure of the verbal complex | |
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| The X morphemes as category markers | |
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| The semantics of Gooniyandi verb classifiers | |
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| Extendible classifiers | |
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| Accomplishment classifiers | |
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| Monovalent classifiers | |
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| Avalent classifiers | |
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| The reasonably well populated categories | |
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| The minor categories | |
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| The bivalent classifier | |
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| Parallelisms between extendible and accomplishment classifiers? | |
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| Exceptions | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Two special cases | |
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| Classification of the most frequent verb roots | |
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| Classification of English borrowings | |
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| Remarks on verb classification in Bunuba | |
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| CVC-based verb category systems | |
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| Formal properties of CVCs | |
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| Nyulnyulan languages | |
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| Worrorran (Northern Kimberley) languages | |
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| Jarrakan languages | |
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| Jaminjungan languages | |
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| Wagiman | |
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| Daly River languages | |
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| Maran languages | |
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| Mangarrayi | |
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| Pama-Nyungan languages | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Comparison of verb category systems | |
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| Degrees of grammaticisation | |
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| IVs recurrent in CVC-based category systems | |
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| Speech; avalent | |
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| Stance; monovalent | |
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| 'Sit, be' | |
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| 'Stand' | |
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| Motion; monovalent | |
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| 'Go' | |
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| 'Fall' | |
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| 'Become' | |
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| Induced motion; bivalent | |
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| 'Carry' | |
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| 'Throw' | |
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| 'Put' | |
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| Acquisition; bivalent | |
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| 'Catch, get' | |
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| 'Give' | |
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| Violence; bivalent | |
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| 'Hit' | |
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| 'Poke' | |
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| Perception; bivalent | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Gooniyandi and Nyulnyul systems in contrast | |
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| Formal characteristics | |
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| System level comparison | |
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| Individual categories compared and contrasted | |
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| Atelic categories | |
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| The unmarked Nyulnyul category -J 'say, do' | |
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| Telic categories | |
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| Categorisation of vocalisation/communication events | |
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| Categorisation of motion events | |
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| Motoric pattern | |
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| Nature of moving entity | |
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| Nature of medium | |
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| Location of carried item | |
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| Other types of motion events | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Verb class systems: conjugations | |
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| Pama-Nyungan conjugation classes | |
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| Non-Pama-Nyungan conjugation classes | |
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| Nyulnyulan languages | |
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| Worrorran languages | |
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| Mindi languages | |
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| Wagiman and Wardaman | |
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| Gunwinjguan languages | |
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| Maran languages | |
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| Nunggubuyu | |
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| Anindilyakwa | |
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| Overlapping conjugation class membership | |
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| Other types of verb class system | |
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| The grammar of verb superclassifying constructions | |
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| Overview of approaches to verb classification | |
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| Conjugation by auxiliary | |
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| Compounding analysis | |
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| Semantic bleaching | |
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| Classifying analyses | |
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| Fusion and union analyses | |
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| CVCs as complex predicates | |
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| Grammatical relations in conjugation classes? | |
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| Grammatical relations in CVCs | |
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| Valency and transitivity in Nyulnyul CVCs | |
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| Related grammatical phenomena | |
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| Verb classification in a wider perspective | |
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| Non-CVC compound verb classifying constructions | |
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| The Ngiyambaa compound verb construction | |
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| The Hindi-Urdu compound verb construction | |
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| Categorisation by prefixes | |
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| Lexical prefixes | |
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| Instrumental prefixes | |
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| Categorisation with quantification | |
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| Other verbal constructions | |
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| Noun incorporation | |
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| Nominal argument classification | |
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| Concluding observations | |
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| Other types of compound verb construction | |
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| Other double-unit verb constructions | |
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| Auxiliary constructions | |
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| Serial verb constructions | |
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| Associated motion constructions | |
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| Final remark | |
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| Marking of diathesis alternations | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Evolution of verb classification in Australia | |
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| Ideophone origins of UVs | |
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| Distinctive phonotactic features | |
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| Phonaesthesia | |
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| Use of UVs as expressives | |
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| Limited morphological modification | |
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| Syntactic properties | |
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| Comparison with recurrent features of ideophones | |
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| Motivations for historical change from ideophone to UV | |
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| Origins and historical development of the CVC | |
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| Origins of Pama-Nyungan conjugation markers | |
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| Evolution of meaning | |
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| Australia as a verb classification Sprachbund | |
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| Verb classification in discourse: a preliminary investigation | |
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| Category distribution in Gooniyandi narratives | |
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| A textual investigation | |
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| Interpretation and explanation | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Overview | |
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| Comparatison of noun and verb classification | |
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| Directions for future research | |
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| Basic information on Australian languages mentioned in this book | |
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| Australian phonologies and orthographies | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index of authors | |
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| Index of languages | |
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| Index of subjects | |