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Worrorra : a language of the north-west Kimberley coast / / Mark Clendon [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Clendon Mark Visualizza persona
Titolo: Worrorra : a language of the north-west Kimberley coast / / Mark Clendon [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: University of Adelaide Press, 2014
Adelaide : , : The University of Adelaide Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 494 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 499.2
Soggetto topico: Wororan languages - Grammar
Soggetto non controllato: arafuran
amy peters
mark clendon
worora
kimberley
linguistics
kunmunya mission
australian languages
worrorra
polysynthetic language
daisy utemorrah
patsy lulpunda
grammar
morphological fusion
Morpheme
Predicate (grammar)
Preverb
Semantics
Verb
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 genders, the intensional properties of which define dynamic oppositions between men and women on the one hand, and earth and sky on the other.
Titolo autorizzato: Worrorra  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9781922064592
9781922064561
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910140395703321
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