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Contents
The language and its speakers | 1 |
Phonology | 11 |
Texts | 22 |
Descriptive preliminaries | 86 |
Nominals Part I | 122 |
122 | 171 |
Derivational suffixes | 188 |
Nominals Part II | 210 |
Nonfinite subordinate clauses | 451 |
Finite subordinate clauses | 488 |
Appendices To Grammar | 550 |
in Lardil | 560 |
Crane Seagull and Rock | 610 |
Fighting over a husband | 626 |
Dictionary | 636 |
References | 801 |
The noun phrase | 233 |
Verbals | 252 |
Structure of the verbal group | 298 |
Syntax of the simple clause | 313 |
The modal case system | 398 |
Plates | 820 |
Author index | 826 |
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Common terms and phrases
1sgNOM adnominal allomorph alternative appear arguments Australian languages Bentinck Island boomerang childNOM clausal clause types clitic cognate compounds conjugation constructions dan-da dangka-a dathin-a dative desiderative discussed dugong Dyirbal English entity ergative example expressed fish frame function go-ACT grammatical imperative INCHoative indirect objects inflection instrument intransitive jungarra Kaiadilt Kayardild kunawuna kurri-ja Lardil lexemes lexical main clause main verb man-NOM maraka marking meaning modal Mornington Mornington Island morphological mutha-a nasal negative ngada ngarrba niya nominal predicators nominalized clauses nominalized verbs non-Pama-Nyungan normal noun/adjectives nouns nyingka object complements Pama-Nyungan Pama-Nyungan languages passive person-NOM phonemic pivot prefixed PRIVative pronominal pronoun PROPrietive proto proto-Tangkic reduplication relational second predicates see-ACT semantic sentences sequence speakers spear stem stress SUBJ subject complement subordinate clauses suffix syllable syntactic Tangkic languages that-NOM topic transitive transitive verbs truncation turtle unmarked UTILitive verb inflection verbal dative vowel Warlpiri wirdi-ja word wuu-ja Yangkaal Yukulta