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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 | |