Language Description Informed by Theory

1. Map of Australian languages refferred to in this book; 2. List of contributors; 3. Editors' introduction (by Pensalfini, Rob); 4. Bibliography of Mary Laughren (by Turpin, Myfany); 5. Evaluating the Bilingual Education Program in Warlpiri schools (by Disbray, Samantha); 6. Part 1. Phonology; 7. Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk (by Turpin, Myfany); 8. Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel (by Round, Erich); 9. Part 2. Morphology; 10. Liminal pronoun systems: Evidence from Garrwa (by Mushin, Ilana); 11. Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu (by Pensalfini, Rob); 12. The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology: History, method and Pama-Nyungan (Australian) verbs (by Koch, Harold); 13. Part 3. Syntax; 14. Marking Definiteness or Specificity, not necessarily both: Evidence of a principle of economy from Mauritian Creole (by Guillemin, Diana); 15. Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism: The case of Romance negation (by Longobardi, Giuseppe); 16. Serial verbs in Wambaya (by Nordlinger, Rachel); 17. Nominals as adjuncts or arguments: Further evidence from language mixing (by Meakins, Felicity); 18. Part 4. Semantics; 19. The case of the invisible postman: The current status of the French future tense (by Wales, Lynn); 20. Manner and result: A view from clean (by Levin, Beth); 21. Part 5. Anthropological Linguistics; 22. Shifting relations: Structure and agency in the language of Bininj Gunwok kinship (by Garde, Murray); 23. Language index; 24. Subject index