This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typo

This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international pr

This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, qu

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phe

This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Ind