16.7 3rd and 4th years Bill McGregor. 175-210/310 Phonetics and Phonology, 211/311 Syntactic Description and Typology. First semester Three hours of lectures and seminars a week. By the end of the subject, students should:

• understand the main phonological, grammatical and semantic features of Australian Aboriginal languages;
• have acquired a detailed analytic knowledge of a particular Aboriginal language.

An investigation of the features of Australian Aboriginal languages, through the study of a particular Aboriginal language. Four assignments and an essay totalling no more than 5,000 words.