Worrorra : : a language of the north-west Kimberley coast /

Worrorra : : a language of the north-west Kimberley coast / / Mark Clendon.

Worrorra is a highly polysynthetic language, characterised by overarching concord and a high degree of morphological fusion. Verbal semantics involve a voicing opposition and an extensive system of evidentiality-marking. Worrorra has elaborate systems of pragmatic reference, a derivational morpholog...

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Clendon, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 494 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents summary
  • Introduction: Patsy Lulpunda, Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah; Geography; Worrorra society; History; How this grammar came to be written; Descriptive tools; What kind of language is Worrorra?;
  • Segmental phonology
  • Morphophonology
  • Nouns and noun classes
  • Indicative mood and basic verbal morphology
  • Adjectives and inalienable nouns
  • Pronouns, demonstratives, anaphors, deictics
  • Optative, counterfactual and exercitive moods
  • Number
  • Adverbs and postpostional phrases
  • Complex predicates
  • Experiencer constructions
  • Objects and possession
  • Complement clauses
  • Subjunctive verbs
  • Middle voice
  • Discourse cohesion
  • Kinship terms
  • Appendices: Texts : Amy Peters: extract from Dawarraweyi; Amy Peters: Kanunerri Warruwarlu
  • Irregular verb paradigms ; Transitive verb paradigm; The role-and-reference account of predicate linkage.

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