Australian Languages

Australian Languages
ISBN-10
3110175975
ISBN-13
9783110175974
Series
Australian Languages
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Pages
415
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Mouton De Gruyter
Authors
Hermann Nekes, Ernest Ailred Worms

Description

Australian Languages is the magnum opus of Hermann Nekes and Ernest A. Worms, two missionary linguists who undertook pioneering investigations of a number of languages spoken in Dampier Land and the Kimberley (far north west of Australia) and to a lesser extent further afield, in Queensland and New South Wales during the 1930s and 1940s. William B. McGregor has revised, annotated and updated the original text of Australian Languages. Presenting a wealth of information on many now extinct or moribund languages, the book and its accompanying CD-ROMare of enormous value to descendants of speakers as well as to linguists, including Australianists, descriptive linguists, typologists, and historians of linguistics.

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