The History of Australian Languages: A First Approach
Creators: name: Capell, A. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1979

description: THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES: A FIRST APPROACH, 419 1. INTRODUCTION 419 1.1. Preliminary Note 419 1.2. Characteristics of the Languages 423 1.3. Structural Development of Australian Languages 431 2. HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY 431 2.1. Preliminaries 431 2.2. The Australian Sound Systems 434 2.2.1. The Consonants 434 2.2.2. The Vowels 438 2.2.3. Other Phonological Features 441 2.3. Processes of Sound Change 443 2.3.1. The Cape York Languages 445 2.3.1.1. Northern CY Languages (Northern Paman or NP) 445 2.3.1.2. The Southern CY Languages 446 2.3.2. Central Australian Languages 447 2.3.3. The Western Desert (WD) Languages 450 2.3.4. The Archaic Languages of the South-East and Extreme North 452 2.4. Historical Phonological Change in Detail 459 2.4.1. Consonants 460 2.4.2. The Puzzle of Root Establishment 464 3. STRUCTURE OF AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES 466 3.1. Establishing Historical Stages 466 3.2. Languages Lacking True Pronouns 470 3.3. Other Non-CA Groups of Languages 474 3.3.1. Languages of the Daly River Area 475 3.3.2. The Tiwi Language of Bathurst and Melville Islands 476 3.3.3. Dampier Land Languages 478 3.3.4. Other Areas 479 3.3.4.1. Yugulda, Garawa and Galgadungu 481 3.3.4.2. Lardil, Bidabida and Gurnu 492 3.4. The EA ŋa- Series of Pronouns 495 3.5. Pronouns of the Western Desert Languages 507 3.6. Possible History of Affix Transference 516 3.7. Cape York Pronominal Systems 522 3.8. The 'Catalyst' Systems 522 3.8.1. The Western Desert Languages 522 3.8.2. Catalysts other than Western Desert 529 3.8.3. Auxiliary Verbs 529 3.9. Summary Survey 530 3.10. Evolution of the Pronouns in Australia 531 4. MORPHOSYNTACTIC HISTORY IN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES 533 4.1. Basic Concepts 533 4.2. Ergativity 537 4.3. Case Formation in General 541 4.4. Number in Nouns and Adjectives 546 4.5. Case in the NP 547 4.5.1. Group Declension 547 4.5.2. Parallel Declension 548 4.5.3. Cumulative Declension 549 4.5.4. Transitivisation 552 4.6. Historical Development of the Noun Phrase 555 5. THE VERB PHRASE 556 5.1. Theoretical Development of the Verb Phrase 556 5.2. Historical Development of the Verb Phrase 561 5.2.1. Voice in Verbs 562 5.2.2. Reflexive and Reciprocal 564 5.2.3. Tense 566 5.2.4. Non-Finite Forms of the Verbs 568 6. THE AUSTRALIAN LEXICON 570 6.1. Introduction 570 6.2. Corridors - the Paths of Peoples and Languages through Australia 575 6.3. Regional Vocabularies 581 6.3.1. Tiwi 582 6.3.2. Arnhem Land Languages 585 6.3.3. Other Areas 588 6.4. The EA/CA Element: Corridors Revisited 591 6.4.1. Regional Studies of EA/CA 593 6.4.2. Distribution of EA Material 594 6.5. Summary 600Bibliography 605Map 1: Phonological Traits, Occurrence of Less Common Phonemes 432Map 2: Distribution of Pronoun Forms in Australia 468Map 3: The Yugulda Language - Gulf of Carpentaria - in Relation to its Neighbours 480Map 4: Tentative Map Showing Distribution of Affix-transferring Languages in Australia 515Map 5: Australian Verbal Systems 525Map 6: Occurrence of the Ergative Construction 536Map 7: Distribution of Common Australian Vocabulary Reflexes 597