A grammar of (Western) Garrwa / Ilana Mushin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mushin, Ilana.

Series:

Pacific linguistics ; 637.

Pacific linguistics, 1448-8310 ; v. 637

Language:

Australian languages

English

Subjects (All):

Garawa language--Grammar.

Garawa language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781614512417

1614512418

OCLC:

826855530