Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 13: Contributions to Australian Linguistics
Creators: name: Rigsby, B. (Ed.)
name: Sutton, P. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1980

description: A-59
description: Contents iii{Alan Rumsey} 1PROLEGOMENA TO A THEORY OF AUSTRALIAN GRAMMATICAL CASE SYSTEMS.Bibliography 26{Patrick McConvell} 31HIERARCHICAL VARIATION IN PRONOMINAL CLITIC ATTACHMENT IN THE EASTERN NGUMBIN LANGUAGES. 1. Introduction 31 2. Clitic Agreement 33 2.1. Pronoun and Clitic Paradigms 33 2.2. Nuclear Cases 37 2.3. Peripheral Cases 41 2.4. Case Systems and the Form of Clitic Attachment 43 2.5. Number 46 2.6. Dual Neutralisation 52 3. The Order of Clitics 56 3.1. Subject Number Shift 56 3.2. Clitic Switch 61 4. The Clitic Base 69 4.1. Types of Base 69 4.2. AUX and Presentence Attachment 70 4.3. Q-Word Attachment 76 4.4. Initial Attachment 78 4.5. Contrastive Initial Attachment 81 4.6. V-Attachment 89 4.7. The Varieties of Clitic Attachment 94 4.8. The History of Clitic Attachment 100 5. Conclusions 103 5.1. Split Systems and Hierarchies 103Map 114Bibliography 115{Peter Sutton} 119CAUSE, ORIGIN AND POSSESSION IN THE FLINDERS ISLAND LANGUAGE. 0. Introduction 119 1. A Historical Problem 119 1.1. FI and Other Languages 120 2. Collapsing of 'Lower Categories' at 'Higher Levels' 127 3. Alternative Kinds of Agent 129 4. Morphological Summary 133Notes 138Bibliography 142{Tamsin Donaldson} 145SUBORDINATION OF FINITE SENTENCES IN NGIYAMBA: (WANGAAYBUWAN), A LANGUAGE OF CENTRAL WESTERN NSW.Bibliography 158{L. Hercus} 159DIALECTAL DIFFERENTIATION IN BĀGANDJI. 1. The Bāgandji Dialects 159 2. The Main Morphological Differences 160 3. The Verbal Word 161 4. The Nominal Word 162 5. Phonetic Distinctions 163 6. Conclusion 164Map 164Bibliography 165{Peter Austin, Corinne Williams and Stephen Wurm} 167THE LINGUISTIC SITUATION IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW SOUTH WALES.Map 167 1. Introduction 168 2. Area 168 3. Language Names and State of Languages 168 4. Relations between the Languages 169 4.1. Vocabulary 170 4.2. Morphology 171 4.3. Syntax 172 5. Relations outside the Area 172 5.1. Vocabulary 173 5.2. Morphology 175 5.3. Syntax 177 6. Conclusions 177Notes 178Bibliography 179{Paul Black} 181NORMAN PAMA HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY.Map 182 1. 'Proto-Paman' and Pre-Norman Pama 183 2. The Languages 187 3. Norman Pama as a Genetic Group 191 4. Phonologies of the Attested Languages 194 5. Pre-Norman Pama Phonology 198 6. Consonant Reflexes in Norman Pama 204 7. Consonant Loss and Lenition 206 8. Vowel Developments in Norman Pama 209 9. Walangama Phonological Developments 216Notes 219Appendix - Reconstructed Forms 220Bibliography 236{Terry Crowley} 241PHONOLOGICAL TARGETS AND NORTHERN CAPE YORK SANDHI. 0. Introduction 241 1. Background 241 2. Sandhi in the Northern Cape York Sub-group 243 2.1. Atampaya Sandhi 243 2.2. Explanation of the Correspondences 247 2.3. Yadhaykenu Sandhi 249 2.4. Angkamuthi Sandhi 251 3. Proto-Northern Paman and its Daughter Languages 252 4. Frills on the Anti-VV Constraint 255Notes 257Bibliography 258{Harold J. Koch} 259KAITITJ NOMINAL INFLECTION: SOME COMPARATIVE NOTES. 1. Introduction 259 2. Inflectional Categories 260 3. Number 261 4. Organisation of Cases 261 5. Case Suffixes 263 6. Derivational Suffixes 264 7. Order of Case and Number Suffixes 264 8. Ergative-Instrumental-Locative 265 9. Ablative 268 10. Comitative and Allative 269 11. Dative 270 12. Conclusion 271Notes 273Bibliography 275{D.T. Tryon} 277PUNGUPUNGU AND WADYIGINY: TYPOLOGICALLY CONTRASTIVE DIALECTS. 1. Introductory (The Problem) 277 2. Wadyiginy and Pungupungu - Similarities (General Overview) 278 3. The Differences (The Verb Phrase) 279 3.1. Verbs of Lying 280 4. The Differences (Wadyiginy) 282 4.1. Intransitives 282 4.2. Transitives with Direct Object 282 4.3. Transitives with Indirect Object 284 5. Conclusions 285Bibliography 287{A.K. Chase and J.R. von Sturmer} 289ANTHROPOLOGY AND BOTANY: TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF.Bibliography 299{Peter Sutton} 303LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF ETHNOBOTANICAL RESEARCH. 1. Language as an Essential Part of Ethnobotany (not just a tool) 303 2. Plant Naming, Description and Classification as Aspects of Speech Acts 305 2.1. Nomenclature 306 2.2. Edibility 306 2.3. Physical Attributes 307 2.4. Non-Physical Attributes 307 2.5. Use 307 2.6. Environment and Location 307 2.7. Inter/Intra-Class Relations 307 2.8. Seasonality 307 3. Morphology and Semantics of Names 308 4. Attributions 309 4.1. Physiological Attributions 309 4.2. Non-Physiological Attributions 309 5. Classifications 309 5.1. Taxonomies 309 5.2. Non-Taxonomic Classification 310Notes 313Bibliography 314