text_combined: new book australian language australian language nordlinger rachel max planck institute psycholinguistics nijmegen constructive case isbn 157586 134 8 paper 157586 135 6 cloth csli publications 1998 http csliwww stanford edu publications email pubs roslin stanford edu australian aboriginal languages many interesting grammatical characteristics challenge central assumptions current linguistic theory languages exhibit many unusual morphosyntactic characteristics yet adequately incorporated current linguistic theory volume focuses complex properties case morphology nonconfigurational languages including extensive case stacking use case mark tense aspect mood problematic many syntactic approaches case properties given natural unified account lexicalist model constructive case developed book allows case morphology construct larger syntactic context independently phrase structure csli publications ventura hall stanford university stanford ca 943054115 telephone 650 7231839 fax 650 7252166 http csliwww stanford edu publications