A Typological Comparison: New Guinea ‘Classificatory Verbs’ and Australian Noun Classification

Merlan, Francesca; Roberts, Steven Powell; Rumsey, Alan

doi:10.1075/slcs.37.07mer

In:Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia
Edited by Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid
[Studies in Language Companion Series 37] 1997
► pp. 63–104

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New Guinea ‘Classificatory Verbs’ and Australian Noun Classification

A Typological Comparison

Francesca Merlan

Steven Powell Roberts

Alan Rumsey

Published online: 2 September 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.37.07mer

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