Yagara Dictionary and Salvage Grammar / Glenda Harward-Nalder and Karen Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harward-Nalder, Glenda, author.

Sullivan, Karen, 1980- author.

Series:

Asia-Pacific Linguistics Series

Language:

Australian languages

English

Subjects (All):

Bandjalang language--Dialects.

Bandjalang language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, [2024]

Summary:

Most English speakers in Australia know a few words of Yagara, the Pama-Nyungan language traditionally spoken in the area that now includes Brisbane and Ipswich. For example, Australian English yakka 'work' comes from the Yagara verb yaga'to work'.

Contents:

Intro

List of illustrations

Figure 1.1: Yagara (in black font) and surrounding languages (in grey).

Figure 1.2: Alternate female generations have the same sections.

Figure 1.3: Selected kinship relations in Yagara.

Table 1.1: Yagara moieties and the totems of equivalent Gabi-Gabi and Jinibara moieties.

Table 1.2: 'Straight' marriage moieties and sections.

Table 1.3: Children's moieties and sections are based on those of their mothers.

Table 1.4: The consonant inventory of Yagara.

Table 1.5: The vowel inventory of Yagara.

Table 1.6: List of consonant phonemes (in IPA) acceptable in various syllable and word positions.

Table 1.7: Attested combinations of permissible syllable codas followed by permissible syllable onsets.

Table 1.8: Holmer's vowel transcriptions for Yagara and three other languages in Part 3 of his Linguistic Survey.

Table 1.9: Ridley's vowel transcriptions for Yagara and nine other languages in his Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages.

Table 1.10: Lauterer's vowel transcriptions for Yagara in 'Outlines of a Grammar'.

Table 1.11: Approximate correspondence of vowel transcriptions based on explanations in the sources.

Table 1.12: Noun cases.

Table 1.13: Derivational affixes.

Table 1.14: Yagara pronouns.

Table 1.15: Yagara adnominal demonstratives.

Table 1.16: Yagara adverbial demonstratives.

Table 1.17: Yagara interrogative pronouns.

Table 1.18: Verbal inflectional suffixes.

Table 2.1: Pronouncing Yagara words in the dictionary.

Abbreviations and conventions

Part 1. Grammar

1.1. The Yagara language

1.2. Kinship

1.3. Phonology

1.4. Parts of speech

1.5. Nominal morphology

1.6. Verbal morphology

1.7. Interjections

1.8. Clitics

1.9. Syntax

Part 2. Dictionary

2.1. Using the dictionary

2.2. Yagara - English Dictionary.

2.3. English-Yagara Finder List

Part 3. Texts

3.1. The contents of Part 3

3.2. Background to the texts

3.3. Sentence lists

3.4. The Resurrection (Ridley 1875)

3.5. From Genesis 1, 2, and 3 (Ridley 1875)

3.6. From Luke 7 and 8 (Ridley 1875)

References.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781760466183

1760466182

OCLC:

1417107717