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Innamincka Talk : A Grammar of the Innamincka Dialect of Yandruwandha with Notes on Other Dialects.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781921934209
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Innamincka TalkDDC classification:
  • 499/.15
LOC classification:
  • PL7001.B744 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminary pages -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Introduction -- 2. The sound system -- 3. Pronunciation -- 4. Organisation of sounds -- 5. The sentence -- 6. Word classes and paradigms -- 7. Simple declarative sentences -- 8. Non-declarative simple sentences -- 9. Nominal inflection -- 10. Noun-stem formation -- 11. Verb inflection -- 12. Bound verb aspect markers -- 13. Verb-stem formation -- 14. Variations on transitivity -- 15. Coordination and subordination -- 16. Adverbs -- 17. Conjunctions, interjections and emphatic particles -- 18. Clitics and emphatic suffixes -- References.
Summary: This book documents all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew to the linguist student.
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Preliminary pages -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Introduction -- 2. The sound system -- 3. Pronunciation -- 4. Organisation of sounds -- 5. The sentence -- 6. Word classes and paradigms -- 7. Simple declarative sentences -- 8. Non-declarative simple sentences -- 9. Nominal inflection -- 10. Noun-stem formation -- 11. Verb inflection -- 12. Bound verb aspect markers -- 13. Verb-stem formation -- 14. Variations on transitivity -- 15. Coordination and subordination -- 16. Adverbs -- 17. Conjunctions, interjections and emphatic particles -- 18. Clitics and emphatic suffixes -- References.

This book documents all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew to the linguist student.

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