A Grammar of Gaagudju

ISBN-13: 9783110172485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 507 str.

Mark Harvey

Opis

This grammar provides an overall description of Gaagudju, a now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. Gaagudju differs from most previously described Australian languages in a number of ways. It shows marked differences in the realizations of stressed and unstressed syllables. It has complex systems of prefixation as well as suffixation. There is a clear distinction between productive and unproductive morphology, with a large amount of the morphology being unproductive. While word order is generally free, strictly ordered phrasal compounding structures are important.

Spis treści

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1 Language owners and speakers

2 Segmental phonology

3 Phonotactics and morphophonology

4 Nominals

5 Verbs

6 Clitics and phrasal compounds

7 Syntax

Appendices

O autorze

Mark Harvey is Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia.