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A Grammar of Gurindji : As spoken by Violet Wadrill, Ronnie Wavehill, Dandy Danbayarri, Biddy Wavehill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Long Johnny Kijngayarri, Banjo Ryan, Pincher Nyurrmiari and Blanche Bulngari / Felicity Meakins, Patrick McConvell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 91Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XXXII, 746 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110746839
  • 9783110746945
  • 9783110746884
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Conventions used in transcription and glossing -- Metadata for recordings -- 1 The language and its speakers -- 2 Phonology -- 3 Parts of speech -- 4 Nominals -- 5 Closed class nominals -- 6 Pronouns -- 7 Inflecting verbs and coverbs -- 8 Syntax of main clauses -- 9 Complex sentences -- 10 Unrestricted clitics and particles -- List of suffixes -- List of enclitics -- Appendices -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects
Summary: Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Gurindji is a Pama-Nyungan language of north-central Australia. It is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa group. The phonology is typically Pama-Nyungan; the phoneme inventory contains five places of articulation for stops which have corresponding nasals. It also has three laterals, two rhotics and three vowels. There are no fricatives and, among the stops, voicing is not phonemically distinctive. One striking morpho-phonological process is a nasal cluster dissimilation (NCD) rule. Gurindji is morphologically agglutinative and suffixing, exhibiting a mix of dependent-marking and head-marking. Nominals pattern according to an ergative system and bound pronouns show an accusative pattern. Gurindji marks a further 10 cases. Free and bound pronouns distinguish person (1st inclusive and exclusive, 2nd and 3rd) and three numbers (minimal, unit augmented and augmented). The Gurindji verb complex consists of an inflecting verb and coverb. Inflecting verbs belong to a closed class of 34 verbs which are grammatically obligatory. Coverbs form an open class, numbering in the hundreds and carrying the semantic weight of the complex verb
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Conventions used in transcription and glossing -- Metadata for recordings -- 1 The language and its speakers -- 2 Phonology -- 3 Parts of speech -- 4 Nominals -- 5 Closed class nominals -- 6 Pronouns -- 7 Inflecting verbs and coverbs -- 8 Syntax of main clauses -- 9 Complex sentences -- 10 Unrestricted clitics and particles -- List of suffixes -- List of enclitics -- Appendices -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects

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Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Gurindji is a Pama-Nyungan language of north-central Australia. It is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa group. The phonology is typically Pama-Nyungan; the phoneme inventory contains five places of articulation for stops which have corresponding nasals. It also has three laterals, two rhotics and three vowels. There are no fricatives and, among the stops, voicing is not phonemically distinctive. One striking morpho-phonological process is a nasal cluster dissimilation (NCD) rule. Gurindji is morphologically agglutinative and suffixing, exhibiting a mix of dependent-marking and head-marking. Nominals pattern according to an ergative system and bound pronouns show an accusative pattern. Gurindji marks a further 10 cases. Free and bound pronouns distinguish person (1st inclusive and exclusive, 2nd and 3rd) and three numbers (minimal, unit augmented and augmented). The Gurindji verb complex consists of an inflecting verb and coverb. Inflecting verbs belong to a closed class of 34 verbs which are grammatically obligatory. Coverbs form an open class, numbering in the hundreds and carrying the semantic weight of the complex verb

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