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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mushin, Ilana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston [MA] : De Gruyter Mouton, Ã2012.
Colección:Pacific linguistics ; 637.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of glossing conventions
  • 1 The Garrwa language and its speakers
  • 2 Phonology
  • 3 Grammatical overview
  • 4 Nouns
  • 5 Pronouns
  • 6 Demonstratives, directionals, and interrogatives
  • 7 Verbs
  • 8 Clitics and particles
  • 9 Syntax
  • 10 Discourse phenomena
  • 11 References
  • 12 Garrwa texts
  • 13 Word List
  • Affix index
  • Subject index