| Description |
1 online resource (863 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Mouton grammar library ; 15 |
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Mouton grammar library ; 15.
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| Contents |
""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations and conventions""; ""List of maps""; ""Part I: Grammar""; ""1 The language and its speakers""; ""1.1 Linguistic type""; ""1.2 Kayardild and its neighbours""; ""1.3 Traditional Kaiadilt culture""; ""1.4 The Tangkic family in Australian perspective""; ""1.5 Recent history""; ""1.6 The Kayardild language today""; ""1.7 Previous investigations""; ""2 Phonology""; ""2.1 Phoneme inventory""; ""2.2 Isolating the word""; ""2.3 Prosodic truncation of final /a/""; ""2.4 Phonotactics""; ""2.5 Morphophonemics""; ""2.6 Stress"" |
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""3 Descriptive preliminaries""""3.1 Parts of speech and phrasal categories""; ""3.2 Word order and ellipsis""; ""3.3 Grammatical and discourse relations""; ""3.4 Functional domains of case inflection""; ""4 Nominals, Part 1""; ""4.1 Structure of the nominal word""; ""4.2 Case inflections: forms""; ""4.3 Nominal case functions""; ""4.4 Verbal case""; ""4.5 Number and related suffixes""; ""5 Nominate, Part II""; ""5.1 Word formation in the noun/adjective class""; ""5.2 Pronouns""; ""5.3 Locationals""; ""5.4 Minor nominal classes""; ""6 The noun phrase"" |
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""6.1 The NP as a syntactic constituent in Kayardild""""6.2 Syntactic functions within the NP""; ""6.3 Modifier types""; ""6.4 NP-splitting""; ""6.5 Complex and apposed NPs""; ""7 Verbals""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Final inflections: form and function""; ""7.3 Final inflections: a comparative note""; ""7.4 Derivations: verb-verb""; ""7.5 Derivations: nominal-verb""; ""7.6 Suffixation of nominal derivatives""; ""7.7 Verbal reduplication""; ""7.8 Noun-verb compounding""; ""8 Structure of the verbal group""; ""8.1 Preverbal particles""; ""8.2 The verb complex"" |
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""9 Syntax of the simple clause""""9.1 Verbless clauses""; ""9.2 Verbal clauses: basic argument structures""; ""9.3 Verbal clauses: derived argument structures""; ""9.4 Second predicates on the subject and other case-agreeing adjuncts""; ""9.5 Questions""; ""9.6 Negation""; ""9.7 Particles, clitics and interjections""; ""10 The modal case system""; ""10.1 Verbal tense/mood and modal case categories""; ""10.2 From locational to modal case meaning""; ""10.3 The domain of modal case marking""; ""10.4 Evolution of the Tangkic modal case systems""; ""11 Non-finite subordinate clauses"" |
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""11.1 Morphological structure of nominalized verbs""""11.2 Lexical nominalizations in -n-""; ""11.3 Lexical nominalizations in -THarrba""; ""11.4 Nominalized clauses""; ""11.5 Nominalized clauses: overview""; ""11.6 Movement purpose complements""; ""12 Finite subordinate clauses""; ""12.1 Introduction""; ""12.2 Odd pivot conditions and complementizing case""; ""12.3 Functions of finite subordinate clauses""; ""12.4 Complementized main clauses I: ellipsed matrix predicates""; ""12.5 Complementized main clauses II: odd topic marking""; ""12.6 The evolution of complementizing case"" |
| Notes |
Substantially Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D., Australian National University, 1985) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 801-819) and indexes |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gayardilt language -- Grammar
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Australian languages -- Australia -- Queensland -- Grammar
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Languages -- Grammar
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Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Grammar
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Australian languages -- Grammar
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Gayardilt language -- Grammar
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Queensland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110873733 |
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3110873737 |
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