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    Case in an Australian Language: Distribution of Case and Multiple Case Marking in Nyamal

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    Authors
    Dench, Alan
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Dench, A. 2012. Case in an Australian Language: Distribution of Case and Multiple Case Marking in Nyamal. In The Oxford Handbook of Case.
    Source Title
    The Oxford Handbook of Case
    DOI
    10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199206476.013.0053
    ISBN
    9780191743535
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55721
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    Abstract

    © editorial matter and organization Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer 2009, chapters their several authors 2009. All rights reserved. Nyamal is an Australian language of the Pama-Nyungan family, originally spoken in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. In Nyamal, as in many Australian languages, nominal suffixes serve a wide range of dependency-marking functions, which include but are not restricted to traditional 'case'. Nyamal has a very complex system of case marking. This complexity is due to its very strong tendency towards multiple case marking combined with variation in the case marking selected by arguments of different predicates, in different clause types, and by different patterns of case syncretism in different classes of nominals. Morphological coding conventions determine the distribution of case suffixes to constituents within a phrase or clause marked for case. Patterns of suffix distribution predicted by the use of case suffixes at different functional levels and by the rules of concord are modified by certain morphological sequence constraints. This article describes and exemplifies that complexity. It sets out the variables affecting the choice of case marking for arguments in clauses and describes the patterns of multiple case marking.

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