Innamincka talk : a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects / Gavan Breen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breen, Gavan, author.

Language:

Australian languages

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Languages.

Aboriginal Australians.

Yandruwandha language--Dialects--Grammar.

Yandruwandha language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2015

Canberra, Australia : ANU eView, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the north of the Cooper, in the northeast corner of South Australia and a neighbouring strip of Queensland. The other volume is entitledInnamincka Words. Innamincka Talk is the more technical work of the two and is intended for specialists and for interested readers who are willing to put some time and effort into studying the language.Innamincka Words is for readers, especially descendants of the original people of the area, who are interested in the language, but not necessarily interested in its more technical aspects. It is also a necessary resource for users of Innamincka Talk. These volumes document all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist who was involved with other languages at the same time. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew to the linguist student.

Contents:

Preliminary pages

Acknowledgments

Preface

Abbreviations and conventions

Introduction

2. The sound system

3. Pronunciation

4. Organisation of sounds

5. The sentence

6. Word classes and paradigms

7. Simple declarative sentences

8. Non-declarative simple sentences

9. Nominal inflection

10. Noun-stem formation

11. Verb inflection

12. Bound verb aspect markers

13. Verb-stem formation

14. Variations on transitivity

15. Coordination and subordination

16. Adverbs

17. Conjunctions, interjections and emphatic particles

18. Clitics and emphatic suffixes

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 13, 2017).

ISBN:

9781921934209

1921934204

OCLC:

982181866

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_611013