When expressing comparisons of magnitude, Pitjantjatjara, a language indigenous to the land now known as Australia, employs contextually driven comparators (e.g., Anyupa is tall.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn Pitjantjatjara, a central Australian Indigenous language, speakers typically describe sequences of actions using clause chaining constructions. While similar constructions are common among the world's languages, very little is known about how children acquire them. A notable exception are the converb constructions of Turkish, which have been relatively well-studied.
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