Handbook of Australian Languages, Volume 2Robert M. W. Dixon, Barry J. Blake This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on four languages which are on the point of extinction, and an assessment of what linguistic impressions can be inferred from the scant material that is available on the extinct languages of Tasmania. |
Contents
PHONOLOGY | 15 |
6 | 22 |
APPENDIX | 101 |
VOCABULARY | 112 |
LIST OF AFFIXES | 142 |
2 | 152 |
WATJARRI by WILFRID H DOUGLAS | 197 |
PHONOLOGY | 203 |
MORPHOLOGY | 300 |
SYNTAX | 333 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 349 |
Margany and Gunya vocabularies from Curr | 378 |
Tindales Marukanji vocabulary | 388 |
TASMANIAN by TERRY CROWLEY and RAW DIXON | 395 |
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY | 404 |
GRAMMAR | 415 |
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Aboriginal adjective AIAS allomorphs Anguthimri Australian languages Bidjara Biyay child clusters common noun conjugation consonant dative derivational affix dialect Dixon Dyirbal English ergative examples function gagay genitive Giramay goanna grammar Gunggari Gunya Hinchinbrook imperative inda inflection initial interrogative Intr intransitive intransitive constructions involve John Tooth kangaroo lagu Linguistics lizard Loan locative long vowel main clause Margany mayu McKellar meat morpheme naga nana nasal naya njarlu nominal Note noun phrase nula nuna Nyawaygi ɲuŋa ŋaga ŋayba occur Palm Island Patimaya personal pronouns phonetic phonological Piper River pronoun refer rhotic River root semantic sentence snake speaker spear stop suffix syllable syntactic Table Tasmanian languages tense tive transitive verb tree verbal Vint Vintr vocabulary vowel length Vtri wagun wallaby Wargamay Watjarri WB WB Western Desert language woman words yamatji