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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Guides to the World's Languages
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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging
reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new
Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long
played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics
and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now,
however, there has been no comprehensive and accessible guide to
the their vast linguistic diversity. This volume fills that gap,
bringing together leading scholars and junior researchers to
provide an up-to-date guide to all aspects of the languages of
Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology,
documentation, and classification; linguistic structures from
phonology to pragmatics and discourse; sociolinguistics and
language variation; and language in the community. The final part
offers grammatical sketches of a selection of languages,
sub-groups, and families. At a time when the number of living
Australian languages is significantly reduced even compared to
twenty year ago, this volume establishes priorities for future
linguistic research and contributes to the language expansion and
revitalization efforts that are underway.
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