TY  - BOOK
AU  - Breen,Gavan
TI  - Innamincka Talk: A Grammar of the Innamincka Dialect of Yandruwandha with Notes on Other Dialects
SN  - 9781921934209
AV  - PL7001.B744 2015 
U1  - 499/.15 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - ANU Press
KW  - Aboriginal Australians--Languages
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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