A Grammar of Wambaya, Northern AustraliaRevised version of MA thesis ; reference grammar of Wambaya; describing phonology and phonetics, parts of speech, morphology, syntax, with text examples and vocabulary appended; notes on social organisation and kin terms; comparison of gender marking with Gudanji, Binbinka, Ngarnga, Jingili and Nungali. |
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Contents
THE LANGUAGE AND ITS SPEAKERS | 1 |
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY | 17 |
PARTS OF SPEECH AND OTHER PRELIMINARIES | 46 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives appears argument auxiliary belong bound pronoun Chadwick Class Class IV cluster common complement consonant constructions contain cook corpus daguma dative demonstratives derived detailed direct discussed distinction drink dual ergative ergative/locative examples fact feel final function future tense gender gender suffixes gi-n gin-a give given Gloss Gudanji guyala head imperative indicate indirect object inflected initial intransitive verbs languages locative look main clause markers marking meaning miji mirra modifying mother ngaba ngajbi ngirr-aji nominal Note noun object occur particle person plural position possessive possible predicate prefixes present refer respectively root semantic simple singular sleep someone speaker stem subordinate clause suffix syllable Table talk transitive tree usually verb verbal vowel Wambaya woman wurla yabu yardi yarru
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Grammar of Wambaya, Northern Australia Books Series Issue 140 of Pacific linguistics, [Pacific linguistics, ISSN 0078-7558 |
| Author | Rachel Nordlinger |
| Contributor | Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Pacific Linguistics |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Pacific Linguistics, 1998 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 21, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0858834812, 9780858834811 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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