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A Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Linguistics [PL] SeriesPublisher: Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (428 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781614519003
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Grammar and Lexicon of YintyingkaDDC classification:
  • 499/.15
LOC classification:
  • PL7101.Y54V47 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Location -- 1.2 Speakers and contact history -- 1.3 Sources -- 1.4 Organization -- 1.5 A sketch of Yintyingka -- 2 Sociocultural matrix -- 2.1 Classical social organization -- 2.2 Linguistic implications -- 2.3 Contemporary organization -- 3 Yintyingka sociolinguistics -- 3.1 Estates, clans and local groups -- 3.2 Languages -- 3.3 Patterns of multilingualism and language use -- 3.4 Contemporary situation -- 4 Earlier linguistic and ethnographic work -- 2 Sources -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The sources -- 2.1 Donald Thomson (1972) -- 2.2 James Cobon (1900) -- 2.3 Herbert Hale &amp -- Norman Tindale (1927) -- 2.4 Donald Thomson (1928-1929) -- 2.5 La Mont West Jr (1961, 1965) -- 2.6 David Thompson (1973) -- 2.7 Bruce Rigsby (1974, 1990) -- 3 Methods: Treatment of sources -- 4 Notes on speakers -- 4.1 Atyaku -- 4.2 Rosie Ahlers -- 4.3 Old Baldy and Noiemo -- 4.4 Bambi -- 4.5 Captain -- 4.6 Chako -- 4.7 Peter Chippendale -- 4.8 Jinny Long -- 4.9 Maggie -- 4.10 Mungi -- 4.11 Ngarrku Tuympa -- 4.12 Noongorrli -- 4.13 Omi -- 4.14 George Rocky -- 4.15 Jack Shephard -- 4.16 Bobby Stewart -- 4.17 Tyamintyinyu -- 4.18 Yumpanamu -- 3 Phonology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phoneme inventory -- 2.1 Consonant inventory -- 2.2 Evidence for the consonant inventory -- 2.3 Vowel inventory -- 2.4 Evidence for the vowel inventory -- 3 Phonetics -- 3.1 Consonants -- 3.2 Vowels -- 4 Word structure and phonotactics -- 4.1 Stem-initial and stem-final positions -- 4.2 Stem-medial consonants -- 4.3 Vowels -- 5 Word stress -- 5.1 Prosodic evidence -- 5.2 Segmental evidence -- 5.3 Stress in phrases -- 6 Orthographies -- 6.1 Practical orthography -- 6.2 Donald Thomson's transcription conventions -- 6.2.1 Consonants -- 6.2.2 Vowels -- 6.2.3 Summary -- 4 Morphology.
1 Introduction -- 2 Pronouns -- 2.1 Nominative forms -- 2.2 Non-nominative forms -- 2.3 Other forms -- 3 Nominals -- 3.1 Case -- 3.2 Information status -- 3.3 Other nominal morphology -- 3.3.1 Semantically transparent morphemes -- 3.3.2 Semantically opaque morphemes -- 3.3.3 Reduplication -- 4 Verbs -- 4.1 Bound nominative pronouns -- 4.2 Tense-mood markers and bound accusative pronouns -- 4.2.1 Analysis -- 4.2.2 Distribution and meanings -- 4.3 Other verbal morphology -- 5 Syntax -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Noun phrase structure -- 2.1 Word-class-based analysis -- 2.2 Generic-specific constructions -- 2.3 Whole-part constructions -- 2.4 Functional analysis -- 2.5 Complex noun phrases -- 3 Basic clause structure -- 4 Case marking and transitivity -- 4.1 Transitivity -- 4.2 Case marking for core arguments -- 4.3 Case marking for adjuncts -- 5 Participant marking -- 6 Tense-aspect-mood and polarity marking -- 6.1 Polarity marking -- 6.2 Tense-aspect-mood marking -- 6.2.1 Tense -- 6.2.2 Aspect -- 6.2.3 Mood -- 7 Non-verbal predication -- 8 Complex sentences and discourse -- 6 Yintyingka in a comparative perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonology -- 2.1 Vowel inventory and vowel harmony -- 2.1.1 Typology -- 2.1.2 History -- 2.2 Consonant inventory -- 2.2.1 Typology -- 2.2.2 History -- 2.3 Initial-dropping and initial-softening -- 2.3.1 Typology -- 2.3.2 History -- 2.4 Other aspects of phonotactics -- 2.4.1 Consonant clusters -- 2.4.2 Stem-final processes -- 3 Morphology -- 3.1 Pronouns -- 3.1.1 Typology -- 3.1.2 History -- 3.2 Nouns -- 3.3 Verbs -- 4 Genetic classification -- 7 Lexicon -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Yintyingka lexicon -- 3 English-Yintyingka finder list -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index.
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Intro -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Location -- 1.2 Speakers and contact history -- 1.3 Sources -- 1.4 Organization -- 1.5 A sketch of Yintyingka -- 2 Sociocultural matrix -- 2.1 Classical social organization -- 2.2 Linguistic implications -- 2.3 Contemporary organization -- 3 Yintyingka sociolinguistics -- 3.1 Estates, clans and local groups -- 3.2 Languages -- 3.3 Patterns of multilingualism and language use -- 3.4 Contemporary situation -- 4 Earlier linguistic and ethnographic work -- 2 Sources -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The sources -- 2.1 Donald Thomson (1972) -- 2.2 James Cobon (1900) -- 2.3 Herbert Hale &amp -- Norman Tindale (1927) -- 2.4 Donald Thomson (1928-1929) -- 2.5 La Mont West Jr (1961, 1965) -- 2.6 David Thompson (1973) -- 2.7 Bruce Rigsby (1974, 1990) -- 3 Methods: Treatment of sources -- 4 Notes on speakers -- 4.1 Atyaku -- 4.2 Rosie Ahlers -- 4.3 Old Baldy and Noiemo -- 4.4 Bambi -- 4.5 Captain -- 4.6 Chako -- 4.7 Peter Chippendale -- 4.8 Jinny Long -- 4.9 Maggie -- 4.10 Mungi -- 4.11 Ngarrku Tuympa -- 4.12 Noongorrli -- 4.13 Omi -- 4.14 George Rocky -- 4.15 Jack Shephard -- 4.16 Bobby Stewart -- 4.17 Tyamintyinyu -- 4.18 Yumpanamu -- 3 Phonology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phoneme inventory -- 2.1 Consonant inventory -- 2.2 Evidence for the consonant inventory -- 2.3 Vowel inventory -- 2.4 Evidence for the vowel inventory -- 3 Phonetics -- 3.1 Consonants -- 3.2 Vowels -- 4 Word structure and phonotactics -- 4.1 Stem-initial and stem-final positions -- 4.2 Stem-medial consonants -- 4.3 Vowels -- 5 Word stress -- 5.1 Prosodic evidence -- 5.2 Segmental evidence -- 5.3 Stress in phrases -- 6 Orthographies -- 6.1 Practical orthography -- 6.2 Donald Thomson's transcription conventions -- 6.2.1 Consonants -- 6.2.2 Vowels -- 6.2.3 Summary -- 4 Morphology.

1 Introduction -- 2 Pronouns -- 2.1 Nominative forms -- 2.2 Non-nominative forms -- 2.3 Other forms -- 3 Nominals -- 3.1 Case -- 3.2 Information status -- 3.3 Other nominal morphology -- 3.3.1 Semantically transparent morphemes -- 3.3.2 Semantically opaque morphemes -- 3.3.3 Reduplication -- 4 Verbs -- 4.1 Bound nominative pronouns -- 4.2 Tense-mood markers and bound accusative pronouns -- 4.2.1 Analysis -- 4.2.2 Distribution and meanings -- 4.3 Other verbal morphology -- 5 Syntax -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Noun phrase structure -- 2.1 Word-class-based analysis -- 2.2 Generic-specific constructions -- 2.3 Whole-part constructions -- 2.4 Functional analysis -- 2.5 Complex noun phrases -- 3 Basic clause structure -- 4 Case marking and transitivity -- 4.1 Transitivity -- 4.2 Case marking for core arguments -- 4.3 Case marking for adjuncts -- 5 Participant marking -- 6 Tense-aspect-mood and polarity marking -- 6.1 Polarity marking -- 6.2 Tense-aspect-mood marking -- 6.2.1 Tense -- 6.2.2 Aspect -- 6.2.3 Mood -- 7 Non-verbal predication -- 8 Complex sentences and discourse -- 6 Yintyingka in a comparative perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonology -- 2.1 Vowel inventory and vowel harmony -- 2.1.1 Typology -- 2.1.2 History -- 2.2 Consonant inventory -- 2.2.1 Typology -- 2.2.2 History -- 2.3 Initial-dropping and initial-softening -- 2.3.1 Typology -- 2.3.2 History -- 2.4 Other aspects of phonotactics -- 2.4.1 Consonant clusters -- 2.4.2 Stem-final processes -- 3 Morphology -- 3.1 Pronouns -- 3.1.1 Typology -- 3.1.2 History -- 3.2 Nouns -- 3.3 Verbs -- 4 Genetic classification -- 7 Lexicon -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Yintyingka lexicon -- 3 English-Yintyingka finder list -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index.

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