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UNINA9910140395703321 |
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Autore |
Clendon Mark |
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Titolo |
Worrorra : a language of the north-west Kimberley coast / / Mark Clendon [[electronic resource]] |
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University of Adelaide Press, 2014 |
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Adelaide : , : The University of Adelaide Press, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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9781922064592 |
9781922064561 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 494 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Wororan languages - Grammar |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents summary -- Introduction: Patsy Lulpunda, Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah; Geography; Worrorra society; History; How this grammar came to be written; Descriptive tools; What kind of language is Worrorra?; -- Segmental phonology -- Morphophonology -- Nouns and noun classes -- Indicative mood and basic verbal morphology -- Adjectives and inalienable nouns -- Pronouns, demonstratives, anaphors, deictics -- Optative, counterfactual and exercitive moods -- Number -- Adverbs and postpostional phrases -- Complex predicates -- Experiencer constructions -- Objects and possession -- Complement clauses -- Subjunctive verbs -- Middle voice -- Discourse cohesion -- Kinship terms -- Appendices: Texts : Amy Peters: extract from Dawarraweyi; Amy Peters: Kanunerri Warruwarlu -- Irregular verb paradigms ; Transitive verb paradigm; The role-and-reference account of predicate linkage. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Worrorra is a highly polysynthetic language, characterised by overarching concord and a high degree of morphological fusion. Verbal semantics involve a voicing opposition and an extensive system of evidentiality-marking. Worrorra has elaborate systems of pragmatic reference, a derivational morphology that projects agreement-class concord across most lexical categories and complex predicates that incorporate one verb within another. Nouns are distributed among five |
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