ISBN:
978-1-922064-59-2
Language:
English
,
Australian languages
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 494 Seiten)
Keywords:
Australien Kimberley
;
Sprache, australische
Abstract:
Worrorra is a highly polysynthetic language, characterised by overarching concord and a high degree of morphological fusion. Verbal semantics involve a voicing opposition and an extensive system of evidentiality-marking. Worrorra has elaborate systems of pragmatic reference, a derivational morphology that projects agreement-class concord across most lexical categories and complex predicates that incorporate one verb within another. Nouns are distributed among five genders, the intensional properties of which define dynamic oppositions between men and women on the one hand, and earth and sky on the other.
Description / Table of Contents:
Dedication -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Segmental phonology -- Chapter Three. Morphophonology -- Chapter Four. Nouns and noun classes -- Chapter Five. Indicative mood and basic verbal morphology -- Chapter Six. Adjectives and inalienable nouns -- Chapter Seven. Pronouns, demonstratives, anaphors, deictics -- Chapter Eight. Optative, counterfactual and exercitive moods -- Chapter Nine. Number -- Chapter Ten. Adverbs and postpositional phrases -- Chapter Eleven. Complex predicates -- Chapter Twelve. Experiencer constructions -- Chapter Thirteen. Objects and possession -- Chapter Fourteen. Complement clauses -- Chapter Fifteen. Subjunctive verbs -- Chapter Sixteen. Middle voice --Chapter Seventeen. Discourse cohesion -- Chapter Eighteen. Kinship terms -- Appendices -- References
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