| Description |
xxiii, 420 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 9 |
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 9
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: -- Preface 1. Australian languages -- 2. Dyirbal: the language and its speakers -- 3. word classes -- 4. Syntax -- 5. Deep syntax -- 6. Morphology -- 7. Phonology -- 8. Semantics -- 9. Lexicon -- 10. Prehistory; Appendices |
| Summary |
Revision of sections on grammar & phonology of authors Ph.D. Thesis; brief introduction to grammatical characteristics of Australian languages (including map); Dyirbal; Linguistic type, dialects (Dyirbal, Giramay, Mamu, Gulngay, Dyiru, Ngadyan) & tribes speaking them (including map), surrounding languages, culture and contact history; detailed discussion of grammatical facts of Dyirbal - word classes, syntax, phonology; discussion of deep syntax in terms of transformational grammar nominative - ergative deep structure, possessive phrases as a type of relative clause, relation between nominal and verbal instrumental constructions; phonology; semantics including data on mother-in-law avoidance language; structure of lexical roots; onomatopoeia; prehistory; general discussion of lexical diffusion in Australia & inapplicability of lexicostatistic methods; evolution of the Dyirbal dialects, recent augmentation of mother-in-law vocabulary; language movement in the Cairns rain forest region; reconstruction of grammatical changes in Dyirbal; Dyirbal logic; previous work on the language; three texts, one with morpheme-by-morpheme glosses & all with literal running translations - the first man, the first baby and the origin of female sexual organs (Mamu dialects); autobiographical story involving dambun, a legendary spirit (Dyirbal dialect); story of Mubunginmi, who became a rainbow serpent (Mamu); vocabulary, limited to items occurring in grammatical examples & texts; index of affixes; includes many references throughout to other Australian languages (indexed); original analysis of demonstrative pronouns in Wemba-Wemba |
| Analysis |
Dyirbal language Grammar |
| Notes |
Aboriginal content |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 411-417 |
| Notes |
In English ; includes three texts and vocabulary in Dyirbal / Jirrbal |
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| In |
Cambridge studies in linguistics no:9 |
| Subject |
Dyirbal language.
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Dyirbal dialects
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Australian languages -- Grammar
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Linguistics -- Research.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies etc
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Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland
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Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland, North -- Languages
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Australian languages.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland, Northern -- Languages
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Language - Secret and special languages
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Race relations - Racial discrimination
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Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
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Language - Semantics
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Language - Texts and translations - Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal language
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Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Nouns and ergatives
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Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Pronouns
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Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax - Affixes
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Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax - Onomatopoeia
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Language
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Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax - Parts of speech
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Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
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Language - Change
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Language - Classification and evolution
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Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Language
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Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
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Settlement and contacts
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Family - Mothers in law
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Dyirbal / Djirbal / Jirrabul language (Y123) (Qld SE55-05)
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Dyirbal / Djirbal / Jirrabul people (Y123) (Qld SE55-05)
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Djiru / Dyiru language (Y124) (Qld SE55-06)
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Djiru / Dyiru people (Y124) (Qld SE55-06)
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Girramay language (Y127) (Qld SE55-06)
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Girramay people (Y127) (Qld SE55-06)
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Malanbarra / Gulngay language (Y126) (Qld SE55-06)
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Malanbarra / Gulngay people (Y126) (Qld SE55-06)
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Mamu language (Y122) (Qld SE55-06)
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Mamu people (Y122) (Qld SE55-06)
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Ngadyan / Ngadjon language (Y121) (Qld SE55-06)
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Ngadyan / Ngadjon people (Y121) (Qld SE55-06)
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Wemba Wemba / Wamba Wamba language (D1) (Vic, NSW SI54-16)
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Wemba Wemba / Wamba Wamba people (D1) (Vic, NSW SI54-16)
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Language - Linguistics - Phonology and phonetics
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Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
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Language - Sociolinguistics - Secret and special languages
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Djirbal language.
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Dyirbal / Jirrbal language Y123
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Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
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Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)
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Tasmania (Tas)
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| LC no. |
78190415 |
| ISBN |
0521085101 |
