Barry Blake - Australian Aboriginal Grammar

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: LINGUISTICS

Volume 52

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL GRAMMAR

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL GRAMMAR

BARRY BLAKE

First published in 1987

This edition first published in 2014

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1987 Barry Blake

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eISBN: 978-0-203-07902-7 (Set)

ISBN: 978-0-415-72742-6 (Volume 52)

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Australian Aboriginal Grammar

BARRY BLAKE

CROOM HELM

London Sydney Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

1987 Barry Blake

Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 1AT

Croom Helm Australia, 44-50 Waterloo Road, North Ryde, 2113, New South Wales

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Blake, Barry J.

Australian aboriginal grammar.

1. Australian languages Grammar.

I. Title

499.15 PL7004

ISBN 0-7099-3989-2

Croom Helm, 27 South Main Street, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire 03894-2069, USA

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Blake, Barry J.

Australian Aboriginal Grammar.

Bibliography: p.

Includes indexes.

1. Australian languages grammar. I. Title.

PL7003.B54 1987 499.15 86-19910

ISBN 0-7099-3989-2

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Biddies Ltd, Guildford and Kings Lynn

I would like to thank Gavan Breen, Leone Dunn, Bill McGregor and Bronwyn Stokes for making primary source material available to me; Peter Austin, Gavan Breen, Bob Dixon, Steve Johnson and Bill McGregor for reading the first draft and suggesting improvements; Jae Jung Song, John Platt and Peter Paul for supplying examples; Celia and Marie Blake for clerical help; June Roder for secretarial assistance, and the Monash Geography Department for their cartographic expertise. 1 would especially like to thank Daniela Antas for turning my scribble into type.