Dryer: Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase

contains data from several Australian languages

Evans: Complex events, propositional overlay, and the special status of reciprocal clauses

Indigenous Placenames

Focus on Bardi

n.b.

As you can see, I’m back with regular internet access, and here are some updates. Sorry about any duplicates, I don’t always remember what’s here.

On the back of the tongue: dorsal sounds in Australian languages

link goes to abstract

clausetypes

Link goes to pdf. Matthew Dryer’s article on clause types for the second edition of the Shopen volume on typology and syntactic description

The nothing that is, the zero that isn’t

Link goes to abstract. Blackwell Synergy: Studia Linguistica, Vol 57, Issue 2, pp. 75-119: Bill McGregor.

Universals, their biolation and the notion of phonologically peculariar languages

includes Diyari.

The violability of backness in retroflex consonants

Involves an analysis of Walmajarri.

`Syntactic ergativity’ in Dyirbal and Balinese

Link goes to abstract