How Free Is Free?: Word Order in Australian Indigenous Languages

How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama-Nyungan, Australia)

Evan Kidd, Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez, Sasha Wilmoth, Javier E Garrido Guillén, Rachel Nordlinger

2025-07-01

Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rul..

Negation in Murrinhpatha

Rachel Nordlinger

2025-01-01

This chapter discusses negation strategies in Murrinhpatha, a non-Pama-Nyungan polysynthetic language from the Daly region of nort..

Word order flexibility in Pitjantjatjara

Sasha Wilmoth, Rachel Nordlinger, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Evan Kidd

2025-01-01

Word order flexibility as a feature of (some) Australian languages has been much discussed in the theoretical literature since Ha..