Worrorra a language of the north-west Kimberley coast
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Adelaide :
The University of Adelaide Press
2014.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423248606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
