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

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Published online: 2 September 1997

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Table of contents

Prefacevii

Map 1: Principal Languagesviii

Map 2: Other Australian Languagesix

Map 3: Mayali and Its Dialectsx

Introduction1

Nominal Classification and Gender in Aboriginal Australia17

New Guinea ‘Classificatory Verbs’ and Australian Noun Classification: A Typological Comparison63

Francesca Merlan

Steven Powell Roberts

Head Classes and Agreement Classes in the Mayali Dialect Chain105

Head and Agreement Classes: An Areal Perspective147

Class and Classifier in Ngan'gityemerri165

Nominal Classification in Marrithiyel229

Noun Classes, Nominal Classification and Generics in Murrinhpatha255

Index of Languages293

Index of Subjects294

List of Contributors295