Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Map of Australian languages refferred to in this book vii
4. List of contributors xi
5. Editors’ introduction 1
6. Bibliography of Mary Laughren 15
7. Evaluating the Bilingual Education Program in Warlpiri schools 25
8. Part 1. Phonology
9. Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk 49
10. Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel 81
11. Part 2. Morphology
12. Liminal pronoun systems 99
13. Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu 123
14. The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology 153
15. Part 3. Syntax
16. Marking Definiteness or Specificity, not necessarily both 193
17. Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism 217
18. Serial verbs in Wambaya 263
19. Nominals as adjuncts or arguments 283
20. Part 4. Semantics
21. The case of the invisible postman 319
22. Manner and result 337
23. Part 5. Anthropological Linguistics
24. Shifting relations 361
25. Language index 383
26. Subject index 385