| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford linguistics |
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Oxford studies of endangered languages |
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Oxford linguistics.
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| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""General Preface""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 The Kayardild language, its speakers, and sources""; ""1.2 Novel contributions of the book""; ""1.3 Structure of the grammar""; ""1.4 Extensions and implications""; ""1.5 Notational conventions""; ""1.6 Outline""; ""2 Morphological structures""; ""2.1 Kayardild phonology""; ""2.2 Roots and thematics""; ""2.3 Suffixes""; ""2.4 The termination""; ""2.5 Suppletive allomorphy of Î?prop, Î?abl, and Î?cons""; ""2.6 Morphomes""; ""3 Specific stems and suffixes"" |
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""3.1 Suffixes""""3.2 Stems and stem�suffix dependencies""; ""3.3 Song forms and their place in Kayardild grammar""; ""3.4 The termination""; ""4 Correlates of inflection""; ""4.1 Inflectional features and their values""; ""4.2 Morphological realization""; ""4.3 Feature co-occurrence""; ""4.4 Concord""; ""4.5 Surface syntax, non-surface syntax, and concord""; ""5 The clause and VP""; ""5.1 Complementization and S-category nodes""; ""5.2 The attachment of TAMT and NEGATION""; ""5.3 Embedded S""""; ""5.4 Embedded VP""; ""5.5 The clause below VPa""; ""5.6 VP nodes and the attachment of TAMA"" |
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""5.7 Matrix clause TAMA in embedded VPs""""5.8 TAMA and predicate DPs in verbless clauses""; ""5.9 TAMA and VP internal topic DPs""; ""5.10 Summary""; ""6 The DP""; ""6.1 Arguments for the existence of DP""; ""6.2 Filled and unfilled structural positions in DP""; ""6.3 Putative DP complements of N""; ""6.4 Personal pronouns""; ""6.5 Concord of CASE in DP""; ""6.6 Concord of NUMBER in either DP or NP""; ""6.7 CASE values only found in predicate or adnominal DPs""; ""6.8 DPs with locative CASE""; ""6.9 Summary""; ""7 DP juxtaposition""; ""7.1 Functions of DP juxtaposition"" |
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""7.2 Juxtaposition and NUMBER""""7.3 Grammatical role alternations""; ""7.4 Juxtaposed DPs do not constitute a domain of concord""; ""7.5 The syntax of DPs that lack N heads of NP""; ""7.6 Narrow scope negation""; ""7.7 Juxtaposition and second predicates""; ""7.8 Summary""; ""8 Feature percolation""; ""8.1 Considerations from the realizational morphology""; ""8.2 Contrastive ordering and antagonism""; ""8.3 Formal implementation""; ""8.4 Examples""; ""9 Discussion""; ""9.1 Sufficiency of the analysis""; ""9.2 Parsimony of the analysis""; ""9.3 Inflection and recursion"" |
| Summary |
Presenting new data and analyses of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Australia, this book makes Kayardild accessible to mainstream formal linguistic theory and so will appeal to a broad new audience as well as to those who know Kayardild well |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gayardilt language -- Morphosyntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191626517 |
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0191626511 |
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1283855712 |
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9781283855716 |
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