Chapter 9 Flashcards by ALEXIS LIAO | Brainscape

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typological features of australian languages, pama-nyungan

A

Three-way contrast between dental, alveolar, and retroflex
consonants (as in Dravidian)
typically agglutinative morphology with suffixes
ergative case system
SOV/free word order

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pama-nyungan language

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warlpiri

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non-pama-nyungan language

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tiwi
gunwingguan group
murrinh patha

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