Compound case markers in Australian languages

In several Australian languages, it is possible for nominals to carry more than one inflectional case marker. This can be due to adnominal multiple ca se marking where two or more cases are assigned to a nominal. This type has been known as "Suffixaufnahme." The recent book Double Case (Plank 1995) g ives a good survey of this topic (including data from Australian languages) . A further possibility is derivational multiple case marking ("compound ca ses"). Here a case marker forms an oblique stem ("founding form") that may attract further case markers. The use of a ligative ("case spacing") can be seen as an interesting mixture of (adnominal) double case and compound cas e. This paper presents the results of a pilot study that includes several l anguages from the Pama-Nyungan and the Tangkic family.