This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on
resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices …

Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in
the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family …

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research
methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic …

We report on the rapid birth of a new language in Australia, Gurindji Kriol, from the admixture
of Gurindji and Kriol. This study is the first investigation of contact-induced change within a …

The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the use of the Kriol particle bambai as an
apprehensive, ie a main clause modal marker indicating that an event will potentially occur …

This article examines whether Australian languages generally lack clear noun phrase
structures, as has sometimes been argued in the literature. We break up the notion of NP …

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating
primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than …

Australian languages have had a significant impact on the theoretical and typological stage
over the last 50 years, particularly in the areas of nonconfigurationality and phrase structure …

This article develops foundations for a new typology of nominal expressions. Despite the
significant diversity attested in languages around the world, a view traditionally and …

The borrowing of case, in either form or pattern, has been observed only rarely in cross-
linguistic studies of language contact, compared with the borrowing of other lexical and …