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Autore |
Meakins Felicity |
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Titolo |
A grammar of Bilinarra : an Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory / / Felicity Meakins, Rachel Nordlinger |
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Boston ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (558 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pacific linguistics, , 1448-8310 ; ; volume 640 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pama-Nyungan languages - Australia - Northern Territory - 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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Conventions used in transcription and glossing -- Conventions used in transcription and glossing -- Recording metadata -- Map -- Chapter 1 The language and its speakers -- Chapter 2 Phonology -- Chapter 3 Parts of speech -- Chapter 4 Nominals 1: Nouns, case, adnominal and derivational morphology -- Chapter 5 Nominals 2: Demonstratives, interrogatives, directionals and possessives -- Chapter 6 Pronouns -- Chapter 7 Inflecting verbs and coverbs -- Chapter 8 Syntax of simple sentences -- Chapter 9 Complex sentences -- Appendix -- Word list -- List of suffixes -- List of enclitics -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of suffixes and clitics by gloss |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered language with only one speaker remaining in 2012 and no child learners. The materials on which this grammatical description is based were collected by the authors over a 20 year period from the last first-language speakers of the language, most of whom have since passed away. Bilinarra is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup of Pama-Nyungan which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa family, which also includes Warlpiri. It is non-configurational, with nominals commonly omitted, arguments cross-referenced by pronominal clitics and word order grammatically |
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free and largely determined by information structure. In this grammatical description much attention is paid to its morphosyntax, including case morphology, the pronominal clitic system and complex predicates. A particular strength of the volume is the provision of sound files for example sentences, allowing the reader access to the language itself. |
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