Title A learner's guide to Eastern and Central Arrernte / Jenny Green

Edition Revised ed Published Alice Springs, N. T. : IAD Press, 2005 Alice Springs, N.T. : AD Press, 2005

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Description 97 p. : 1 map ; 22 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: A cknow ledgem ents ii -- Preface vi -- Chapter One -- Introduction some features of the language -- 1.1 Where is Arrernte spoken? Dialects of Arrernte 2 -- 1.2 Handsigns and polite ways of communicating -- 1.3 N am es 4 -- 1.4 Pronunciation and the Arrernte spelling system 4 -- 1.5 Pronunciation guide 8 -- C onsonants -- Vow els 12 -- Stress 15 -- Hyphens 15 -- Chapter Two -- The sim ple sentence 17 -- 2.1 Terminology 17 -- 2.2 Starting a conversation 17 -- 2.3 This and that 18 -- 2.4 'Be'and verbless sentences 18 -- 2.5 Putting a group of words together - word order 19 -- 2.6 Verbs: the heart of the sentence 21 -- 2.7 Other verb endings 22 -- Purpose and intent 22 -- How to say you're not doing something 23 -- How to tell someone to do something 23 -- How to tell someone not to do something 24 -- 2.8 Transitive and intransitive verbs 25 -- 2.9 Reciprocal and reflexive verbs 28 -- Doing verb actions to oneself or to one another 28 -- 2.10 Other verb matters 29 -- Com pound verbs 29 -- 2.11 N ouns and endings 30 -- I ocations and instrum ents 30 -- P ossession 32 -- Negatives, nothing and being without something 34 -- H ow to say no 34 -- Purpose dative ending 35 -- To and from 37 -- A fter 42 -- W ith, together 43 -- Something is similar to something else 44 -- Because - something might have bad consequences or -- som ething is disliked 45 -- Summary of endings learnt so far 46 -- 2.12 How to ask questions in Arrernte 47 -- W hat? and W hy? 48 -- W ho?, W hose? and W ho for? 49 -- W here?, W hich w ay? 51 -- W h en ? 51 -- How?, How many?, How much? 52 -- Chapter Three -- Pronouns and kinship 53 -- 3.1 Pronouns -- 3 .2 K in sh ip 56 -- Chapter Four -- M ore com plicated sentences 64 -- 4.1 W ays of saying 'and' joining words 64 -- 4.2 Sentences with more than one verb 67 -- U se of +m ele 68 -- U se of +rlenge, +rleke 69 -- Som e uses of -arle 71 -- Chapter Five -- Making new words, borrowing words and other matters 73 -- 5.1 W ord building 73 -- Making intransitive (0) verbs using -irreme 73 -- M aking (+le) transitive verbs using ileme 73 -- 5.2 Loan w ords 74 -- 5.3 Doubling words up 75 -- 5.4 M aking nominals out of verbs 77 -- 5.5 M ore than one 78 -- 5.6 Making comparisons 79 -- 5.7 Location and direction 80 -- 5.8 Verbs and motion 82 -- 5.9 How an action is done - in what manner? 83 -- Chapter Six -- W ord lists 85 -- Chapter Seven -- A song and some simple conversations -- Further inform ation 97 -- List of diagrams, tables and map -- Eastern and Central Arrernte skin names, and old Eastern Arrernte -- skin nam es 58 -- Part of the 'family tree' of a Kemarre woman showing the sub-sections -- and the kin terms she would use for some of her relatives 63 -- Table 1: A comparison of the consonant sounds in Arrernte and English 7 -- Table 2: English pronouns 53 -- Table 3: Arrernte pronouns 54 -- Table 4: Arrernte, Warlpiri and Alyawarr skin names 57 -- Map of the Eastern and Central Arrernte region 3. Summary Pronunciation, noun and verb morphology, questions, pronouns and kinship with comparison with Anmatyerr, Alyawarr, Kaytetye and Warlpiri, simple and complex sentences, neologisms and loan words, word list in semantic domains, song and conversation Notes Previous ed.: 1994 Bibliography Bibliography: p. 97 Subject Aranda language -- Study and teaching Eastern Arrernte language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Languages Eastern Arrernte language -- Study and teaching Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Languages Western Arrernte language -- Study and teaching Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms Language - Change Music - Vocal Language - Linguistics - Phonology - Pronunciation Language - Semantics Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Nouns and ergatives Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Pronouns Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Verbs Language - Vocabulary - Word lists Arrernte / Aranda language (C8) (NT SG53-02) Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02) Aboriginal Australians -- Languages. Eastern Arrernte language. Arrernte language C8 Ltyentye Apurte / Santa Teresa / Little Flower Mission (South Central NT SG53-02) Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14) Northern Territory - Central NT Northern Territory. Genre/Form Textbooks Author Institute for Aboriginal Development (Alice Springs, N.T.) LC no. 2007367868 ISBN 1864650818

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