A grammar of Bilinarra : an Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory / / Felicity Meakins, Rachel Nordlinger
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Boston ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (558 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 499/.15 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pama-Nyungan languages - Australia - Northern Territory - Grammar |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Australian Aboriginal Languages, Typology, Grammar |
| Altri autori: |
NordlingerRachel <1969->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A grammar of Bilinarra |
| ISBN: | 1-61451-274-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825802503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Pacific linguistics ; ; 640.