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A grammar of Garrwa /
Mushin provides the first full grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered language of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region in Northern Australia. Garrwa is typologically interesting because of its uncertain status in the Australian language family, its pronouns and its word order...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Boston [MA] :
De Gruyter Mouton,
Ã2012.
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| Colección: | Pacific linguistics ;
637. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Mushin provides the first full grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered language of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region in Northern Australia. Garrwa is typologically interesting because of its uncertain status in the Australian language family, its pronouns and its word order syntax. This book covers Garrwa phonology, morphology and syntax, with a particular focus on the use of grammar in discourse. The grammatical description is supplemented with a word list and text collection, including transcriptions of ordinary conversation. |
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| Notas: | Includes indexes. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 476 pages) : map. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1614512418 9781614512417 |