Author(s): Barry J. Blake
Series: Linguistic Series 23
Publisher: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Year: 1977
Language: English
Commentary: better version of version sent on lingtyp
Pages: 80
City: Canberra
Case marking in Australian languages
MAP 1. Location of Languages mentioned
Contents
Tables
Maps
Acknowledgements
Some conventions used in this work
Abbreviations
MAP 2. Distribution of Selected Features
1 Introduction
1.1 Aim
1.2 Method
1.3 Classification of Australian languages
1.4 Pama-Nyungan
1.5 Non-Pama-Nyungan
1.6 Morphological structure in general
1.6.1 Case marking
1.6.2 Number marking
1.6.3 Class marking
2 The case marking for the major syntactic relations: a first approximation
2.1 General
2.2 Type 1
2.3 Type 2
2.4 Type 3
2.5 Type 4
2.6 Type 5
2.7 Type 6
2.8 Type 7
2.9 Type 8
2.10 Type 9
3 The case marking for the major syntactic relations: further details
3.1 General
3.2 Distribution of ergative and accusative marking
3.3 Ergative forms in bound pronouns
3.4 No ergative with the imperfect or future
3.5 Optional ergatives
3.6 Anti-passive constructions
3.6.1 Anti-passive in Djirbal
3.6.2 The favourite construction in Galgadungu
3.6.3 Anti-passive in other languages
3.7 Passive constructions
3.8 Bound pronouns in some Non-Pama-Nyungan languages
4 The DATIVE case
4.1 Functions
4.2 Complement of intransitive verbs, nouns and adjectives
4.3 Indirect object
4.4 Purpose
4.5 Beneficiary
4.6 Possessor and possessed
4.6.1 Dative, genitive and 'having' suffixes
4.6.2 Some other means of expressing possession
4.6.3 Whole-part relationships
4.7 Indirect cause
4.8 Expressing the DATIVE in the verb
5 The INSTRUMENTAL case
5.1 Forms
5.2 Distinguishing an INSTRUMENTAL case
5.3 Meaning
5.4 Instrumental and the 'having' suffix
5.5 Body parts as instruments
5.6 Animate INSTRUMENTALS
5.7 INSTRUMENTAL with intransitive verbs
5.8 Inanimate AGENTS
5.9 The expression of INSTRUMENTAL in the verb
6 The LOCATIVE case
6.1 Forms
6.2 Meaning
6.3 Further specification of location
6.4 COMITATIVE
6.5 'Facing', 'opposite'
6.6 'Across'
6.7 The expression of LOCATIVE in the verb
7 ABLATIVE, ALLATIVE and CAUSAL
7.1 ABLATIVE
7.2 ALLATIVE
7.3 'Towards'
7.4 CAUSAL
7.5 Semblative
7.6 Time
8 Summary of case syncretisms
Appendix I. List of case forms
Appendix II. List of case systems for the major syntactic functions
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