A functional grammar of Gooniyandi / William McGregor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGregor, William, 1952-

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 22.

Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gunian language--Grammar.

Gunian language.

Gunian language--Intonation.

Gunian language--Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (638 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume sets out to provide a comprehensive description of the grammar of Gooniyandi, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the southern-central Kimberley region of Western Australia. It covers phonetics and phonology, word phrase and clause structure, and the semantics of closed-class grammatical items. The major focus is, however, on meaning: how do Gooniyandi speakers mean with and in their language. To this end, the theoretical framework of systemic functional grammar, particularly as elaborated in Halliday's recent work, is adopted. Certain refinements to the theory are proposed in order to

Contents:

A FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR OF GOONIYANDI; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER TWO. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY; CHAPTER 3. THE WORD; CHAPTER 4. THE PHRASE; CHAPTER 5. THE CLAUSE; CHAPTER 6. TOPICS IN SEMANTICS; APPENDIX 1: TEXTS; APPENDIX 2: VOCABULARY IN SEMANTIC FIELDS; APPENDIX3: LIST OF BOUND MORPHEMES; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Sydney, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-23401-7

9786613234018

90-272-8205-6

OCLC:

746747258