Subject index
absolutive
146–50
,
ergative-absolutive
accusative
146–50
,
nominative-accusative
adjectives
102, 224–8, 402, 473–81, 491–518
derivation of
230, 271–6, 280–9
,
word-class-changing derivations
semantic types of
102, 227, 243, 272, 276, 282, 323, 407, 420–1, 429, 482, 506
,
age, colour, dimension, human propensity, physical property, value
adjectivization
,
see adjectives, derivation of
adjuncts
,
see peripheral arguments
adpositions
395, 398–9, 430–51, 481–3, 494, 521–6
,
postpositions, prepositions
adverbs
276–80, 294
,
word-class-changing derivations
age as a semantic type of adjectives
421
,
adjectives, semantic types of
agglutinating language
29, 102, 110, 171, 200, 446
agglutinative language
,
see agglutinating language
allative-instrumental
35–8, 102
ambitransitive
,
see transitivity
anaphor(a)
498–503, 516
animacy
74, 157, 178, 405–6, 409–13, 416–46
,
gender, reference classification
antipassive
46–51, 76–85, 146–7
applicative
44–58, 76–80, 86–90, 93–7, 112–15, 138–40, 207–8, 244–5
,
argument-transferring derivations, valency-changing derivations
apprehensive
14–16, 21–8
areal diffusion
95, 109, 318, 324, 365–6, 384, 442–3
,
borrowing, language contact
areal feature
315, 318, 324, 365
argument-determined constructions
44–80
argument-focussing constructions
58–65, 76–80
argument-manipulating constructions
66–72, 76–80
argument-transferring derivations
44–58, 76–80
,
applicative, causative
article
494–510, 521–2
aspect
10, 24–8, 223, 225
and adjectivizations
273
and case
26–8, 30–2
and nominalizations
257–8
and other grammatical systems
170–3, 179–83, 189–200
augmentative
6, 137, 223, 378–98, 420, 428
Australian Aboriginal words in dictionaries
529–54
basic linguistic theory
80
body parts
227, 233, 242, 392, 410, 414–15, 418–19, 424–30, 433, 443–5
boomerang, the etymology of
529, 531, 534–5, 538–53
borrowing
246, 269, 279, 369, 513, 529–54
,
loan
boundedness as a parameter in classifiers
409–12, 430–2, 441–2
,
classifiers
boundedness of event
26, 172
case
1–43, 102, 110, 170, 175–6, 181–2, 187–202, 222, 256–7, 298, 381–5
,
grammatical relations
causal meaning
21–2
causative
46–58, 76–80, 86–142, 227
,
argument-transferring derivations, valency-changing derivations
as meaning of a word-class-changing derivation
233–4, 238–41
origin of
96–7
child language
356
classifiers
6–7, 173–4, 178–9, 223, 256, 269, 378–90, 394–450
clause linking
1–4, 8–23, 33–40, 167–8
,
coordination, pivot
cognitive states, verbs of
,
see verbs of perception and cognition
colour as a semantic type of adjectives
102, 243, 323, 407, 421, 429
,
adjectives, semantic types of
comitative
7, 9, 11, 15, 21, 35, 52–3, 71, 96, 102, 267, 372–3
command
294–5, 298–9, 305, 334–40, 347
,
imperative
compactness scale of causatives
99
comparative constructions
6, 224, 472–93, 526–8, 495–510, 526–7
complement clause
9, 21–2, 262–8, 292, 309–11, 325, 382–3, 387–8
complementation strategy
268–9, 287, 322–5
complex predicate
87, 96–9, 273, 287–9, 380
compounding
of nouns
156, 162, 228–32, 271, 276, 283–6, 320–1, 524
of verbs
102, 108–9, 114–15
conditional
12–21, 39, 294–5, 307, 380, 471, 521
conjugation
373–5
conjunct-disjunct person marking
361, 363
constituency
519–29
constituent order
446–51
conversion
225–30
,
zero-derivation
coordination
59–61, 148–50
,
pivot
copula construction
45, 104, 461–2, 471–3, 488–9
core argument
4, 44–54, 57, 61, 88–95, 129, 143–69, 188, 197, 205, 217, 387, 521–5
and derivations
223–71, 281–6
core case
1–40
,
case
coverb
246
cross-referencing
377–93, 448–50
dative case
3, 11–33
definiteness
79, 176, 198–204, 208, 495–511
delocutive verbs
234–45
demonstratives
151–59, 165–6, 399, 401–9, 444–8, 494–503, 521–2
derivations based on a noun and a core argument
156–7
derivations, word-class-changing
89, 221–89
,
adjectivization, nominalization, verbalization
desiderative
38, 102, 236, 242, 245, 272, 319–20, 333, 339, 343, 418
de-subordination
24, 307
dictionary making
529–54
different subject marking
,
see switch reference
diffusion
,
see areal diffusion, language contact
dimension as a semantic type of adjectives
243
,
adjectives, semantic types of
dimensionality as a parameter in classifier systems
411–13, 420, 429–30, 441–2, 446
,
classifiers
diminutive
6, 89, 137, 223, 378–80, 428
dingo, the etymology of
529, 531, 535, 539–43
direct
,
see inverse
direct speech
290–323, 327–34, 347–66
,
indirect speech
discourse topic
,
see topic
ditransitive
,
see transitivity
double marking of syntactic function
377, 386–93
ellipsis
24, 303, 307–8, 391, 422, 453
,
de-subordination
Equi-NP deletion
69, 72
ergative-absolutive
11–15, 146–50, 447–8
,
grammatical relations
evidentials
5–6, 171–3, 183–4, 190–200, 223, 259, 270, 378, 458–9
,
information source
exclamation
297–8, 306
exclusive
448, 471
existential
166, 181, 233, 237–41, 245
explanation, linguistic
369–71
extended intransitive
45, 102, 144
,
transitivity
extended transitive
45, 144, 205
,
transitivity
fieldwork methodology
91, 284
fieldworkers, suggestions for
284–89, 324–6
finite(ness)
20–3, 109, 262, 264, 270, 313
focus
58–66, 71, 85–100, 381–2, 432, 446
,
argument-focussing constructions
free indirect speech
306–8
frustrative
29, 32–3, 37, 102, 380–1
fusional language
29, 171, 446
gender
6–7, 102, 192, 223, 256, 395–6
,
reference classification
in Jarawara
61–4, 460–2
in Palikur
401–11, 437–46
genitive case
7, 26, 181–2, 188, 202, 256, 260–1, 267, 371–2, 391
gerund
262–70
grammatical relations
102, 143–69
grammaticalization
5, 10, 23, 39, 97, 136, 246, 277, 308, 320, 326, 396, 429, 443
hearsay
,
see reported evidential
honorifics
125, 298
hortative
10, 26
human propensity as a semantic type of adjectives
243, 272, 276, 282, 421, 506
,
adjectives, semantic types of
iconic motivation
99
imperative
102, 151, 176, 181, 197, 225, 259, 294–5, 305, 313–15, 333–45, 351–61, 457–8
,
command
impersonal passive
50–1
,
passive
inchoative
89, 129, 232–3, 236–46, 283, 289, 407, 446
inclusive
175, 363, 448
incorporation
151–59, 161–2, 418–29
,
noun incorporation
index of comparison
472–93
indirect speech
290–323, 328–35, 339–41, 347–66
,
free indirect speech
infinitive
42, 227, 259, 264, 267–70, 294
information source
5–6, 171–3, 183–4, 190–200, 223, 259, 270
,
evidentials
-ing forms of verbs in English
262–8
,
gerund, nominalization
ingestive verbs
91–2, 102, 107, 111, 115, 210–11, 235–8, 242
instrumental case
12–13, 19, 21, 33–8, 266, 384–6, 391
intensive
88, 101, 117–18, 122–41
pluractional
interjection
221, 240–1, 310, 318, 325, 337, 344–5, 350
intonation
59, 132, 290–2, 297, 303, 312, 321–2, 325, 334, 344–5, 355, 475
intransitive
,
see transitivity
inverse systems
73–85
irrealis
12, 15, 19, 21, 258, 375
isolating language
171, 200
iterative
101, 124–41
kangaroo, the etymology of
529, 531–4, 538–53
kinship terms
226–9, 240–2
koala, the etymology of
529, 531, 535, 542–3
language contact
95, 109, 318, 324, 365–6, 384, 442–3
,
areal diffusion, borrowing, loan
lexicalization
105, 114, 142, 229–32, 285, 417, 427–8
light verb construction
246–7, 280
linguistic area
,
see language contact
loan
246, 279, 369, 513, 529–54
,
see borrowing
locative case
1–43, 370–3, 384–92
locative classifiers
430–5
,
classifiers
logophoricity
293, 324, 329, 340, 350–1, 359–66
markedness
176–9, 185, 260, 457–64
medial clause
,
see switch reference
middle
80–85
modality
24–8, 32–3, 223, 258–9, 273
mood
10, 24–8, 176, 182, 197, 223
negation
170–2, 178–84, 189, 193–202, 259, 265, 305–6, 407, 479
,
polarity
neutralization
177, 183–4, 191–4, 196, 201–2
nominalization
18, 29, 156–7, 162–3, 230–2, 247–71, 280–9, 382–3
,
derivations, word-class-changing
argument marking in
260–1
nominative-accusative
102, 146–50
nothing
451–64
noun class
269, 275, 389–90, 401–10, 436–45
,
gender, reference classification
noun compounding
156, 162, 228–32, 271, 276, 283–6, 321, 524
noun incorporation
151–62, 418–29
,
incorporation
number
150–59, 170–1, 175–81, 184–203, 223, 255, 446–8, 455–6, 459–60, 503
and suppletive verbs
52–4
number words
410–17, 494, 503–8
numeral classifiers
410–17
,
classifiers
oblique case
1–40
onomatopoeia
221, 239–41, 244, 318, 325
order (in the Algonquian linguistic tradition)
75–6
parameter of comparison
472–93
participial clause
279, 314–15
participle
22, 42, 182, 193, 227, 270–3, 279, 282, 288, 385
partitive case
26–31, 181
passive
46–51, 58, 66–71, 76–85, 258, 429, 491
impersonal passive
50–1
peripheral arguments
45, 52–5, 62, 65, 93–4, 144, 149, 217–18, 223–71, 488
periphrastic constructions
47, 58, 97–9, 109, 138, 190, 270, 273, 473–4
person
170–3, 176–81, 184–200, 308, 328–32, 446–50
person shift in speech reports
290–2, 306–8, 324–5, 328–66
phonological change
452–3
phonological difference between nouns and verbs
226
physical property as a semantic type of adjectives
243, 272, 276, 282, 420
,
adjectives, semantic types of
pivot
58–66, 80, 148–50
pluractional
155–6
plural
150–59
,
number
polarity
170–2, 178–84, 189, 193–202, 259, 265
,
negation
polyfunctional roots
228–30
polysynthesis
377–394, 446
possession
176, 223, 260–3, 300–1, 392–3
classifiers in possessive constructions
397–8, 435–6
,
relational classifiers
postpositions
430–5, 446–51
,
adpositions, prepositions
as markers of clause linking
16, 23, 41–2
precategorial roots
228–9
prepositions
430–5, 446–51
,
adpositions, postpositions
as markers of clause linking
16, 23, 41–2
preprefixation
392
privative case
7, 245, 251, 259, 272, 274, 391
privative derivation
274
progressive
232, 243, 263
promotion to subject
70–3
pronoun-reversing children
,
see child language
pronouns
357–60, 382–3, 460, 465–71
proprietive
7, 25, 233, 236–8, 274, 342–6, 358, 391
proximate-obviative
75–6, 80
purposive
3, 12–19, 25, 30–40
quantifier
155, 172, 263, 396, 405, 410–15, 494–6
quotation
290–2, 299–308, 313–23, 328–34, 348, 351, 355, 359–61
quotative evidential
291, 298–9, 304–8, 318–20
realis
15, 19, 21, 190
,
irrealis
reality status
,
see irrealis, realis
reanalysis
23–8, 34, 110, 141, 246–7, 269–70, 279–82, 287, 291, 443
,
reinterpretation
reciprocal
51, 176, 235–8, 380, 418
reconstruction
119–20, 138–42
reduplication
7, 29, 99, 118, 141, 156–7, 223, 228–9, 232, 283, 286, 460
reference classification
170, 173, 181–200, 203
,
animacy, gender, classifiers
referential status of arguments
73–6
,
inverse systems
referring expressions
229–30
reflexive
51, 151, 166, 175–6, 293, 300–1, 418, 423
reinterpretation
24–8, 38–9, 246, 273, 278–80, 323
,
reanalysis
relational classifiers
397–8, 435–6
,
possession
reported evidential
304–8
,
quotative evidential
reporting verb
290, 296–9, 300–14, 325–8, 335–40, 347
same subject marking
,
see switch reference
secondhand evidential
,
see reported evidential
semantic roles
205–20
semi-direct speech
327–66
serial verb construction
97, 100, 109, 111, 114–15, 151, 317, 380
similarity as a meaning of derived verbs
235–9, 274–6, 282, 314, 319–20
songs, language of
371–2
speech report
290–366
split-S system
110, 148–9, 155, 447–8
Sprachbund
,
see linguistic area
stative verb
87, 91, 104, 110–12, 117, 122–4, 226–7, 245, 394–5, 400–2, 408, 418–30, 438–46
subject properties
69–70
superlative
483–4, 494
suppletion
152–4, 162, 166, 169, 415, 430, 437
switch reference
11, 29, 33–64, 69–72, 199, 333, 380, 387
synthetic language
226–9, 378
,
polysynthesis
tense
170–2, 176–9, 182–3, 189–200, 223–7, 257, 265, 273, 382–3, 455–7
topic
29, 61–73, 80, 158–60, 166–8, 382–92
transitivity
32, 45, 76–80, 97–8, 101–42, 205, 223–7, 311–21
valency-changing derivations
46–57, 223, 258, 273
,
argument-transferring derivations, causative, applicative
value as a semantic type of adjectives
227, 243, 482
,
adjectives, semantic types of
verb compounding
102, 108–9, 114–15
verb types
1–43, 233–46
verbal classifiers
418–429
verbalization
230–47, 280–9
,
derivations, word-class-changing
verbs of eating
91–2, 102, 107, 111, 115, 210–11, 235–8, 242
verbs of motion
34, 91, 102–4, 205, 261
verbs of perception and cognition
9, 12, 262, 317–19, 325
verbs of speech
9, 12–13, 211–13, 314–20, 337–8
,
reporting verbs
verbs of state
87, 91, 104, 110–12, 117, 122–4, 226–7, 245, 394–5, 400–2, 408, 418–30, 438–46
vocative
297–8, 306, 350, 356
voice
80–85
warning
,
see apprehensive
wombat, the etymology of
529, 531, 535–43
word classes
222–30, 371–2
word-class-changing derivations
230, 271–89
,
adjectivization, nominalization, verbalization
zero
451–64
zero-derivation
225–30
,
conversion