The Western Desert Code: An Australian CryptogrammarPacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2001 - Pacific Area - 482 pages |
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and systems | 5 |
Kaakunatintja Uta Uta Tjangala n d 2233 | 23 |
Western Desert men jointly constructing a ceremonial sand painting | 29 |
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action activity sequence Actor addressee adverbs alatjitu anangu anangu tjuta anaphoric Attribute Australian languages Carrier circumstances circumstantial clause complex clause rank clitic conjunction construed context contrast culture Deictic discourse elaborating elements English entity example exchange exemplified Figure formalist function gloss grammatical Halliday hypotactic hypotaxis identified identity imperative imperative mood inflection interaction irrealis Kipara kuli-ni kunyu kutjara kutju kutjupa Lands Trust lexemes lexical lexicogrammatical linguistic Medium metafunction MODAL ASSESSMENT mood morpheme neutral nganana ngayulu ngura nominal group non-finite nyaa nyanga nyangatja nyara nyaratja nyina-ngi options organisation palu-nya palulanguru paluru tjana panya paratactic participant Pitjantjatjara potential Process projection pula pulka putu Range realised reference relations role Sayer semantic semiotic Senser social speaker spoken structure suffix tense Text textual tjinguru tjitji tjukurpa tjuta-ngku tone contours tone group tonic focus transitivity types unmarked verb verbal waru wati Western Desert Western Desert language wiru wiya word