A Grammar of the Kuku Yalanji Language of North QueenslandPacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2002 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 250 pages |
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Aborigines action adjectival particles adjective allomorphs anaphoric animacy antipassive Australian languages balu bama Bloomfield River Bula bunga-l child clitic co-ordination co-referential come-PAST comitative common NP compounds conjugation consonant constituent constructions dative deleted derivational suffix discourse Dixon Djabugay dog.ABS(O dunga-ny Dyirbal emphatic clitic ergative example food.ABS(O function go-NONPAST go-PAST Guugu Yimidhirr Haviland Hershberger imperative inchoative indicate inflection instance intonation intransitive verb intransitivised jalbu Jana kada-ny kari karrkay kaya Kuku Yalanji kuni-ny l-conjugation location words main clause mayi minya narrative nasal neutral Nganjin nganya Ngayu nominal non-zero inflection noun phrase nukany Nyulu Nyungkul dialect oblique object occur Palmer River passive plural possessive potent privative pronoun purposive clause reduplicated reference semantic content semivowel speakers spear stem-forming suffix stems stress subordinate clause syllable syntactic text 51 that.ABS(S topic transitive sentence unmarked verbal vowel wawu woman word order wubul Wujal Wujal Wujal yala Yalanji and Nyungkul Yidiny yinya Yundu zero anaphora