| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 494 pages) |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-494). |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (University of Adelaide Press website; viewed on 2020-04-07). |
| Contents |
Segmental phonology -- Morphophonology -- Nouns and noun classes -- Indicative mood and basic verbal morphology -- Adjectives and inalienable nouns -- Pronouns, demonstratives, anaphors, deictics -- Optative, counterfactual and exercitive moods -- Number -- Adverbs and postpostional phrases -- Complex predicates -- Experiencer constructions -- Objects and possession -- Complement clauses -- Subjunctive verbs -- Middle voice -- Discourse cohesion -- Kinship terms. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Worora language -- Grammar.
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Worrorra (Langue) -- Grammaire.
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Language.
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linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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| Indexed Term |
linguistics |
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worrorra |
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worora |
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australian languages |
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mark clendon |
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kimberley |
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arafuran |
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patsy lulpunda |
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amy peters |
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daisy utemorrah |
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kunmunya mission |
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grammar |
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polysynthetic language |
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morphological fusion |
| Added Title |
Worrorra |
| Other Form: |
1922064564 |
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1922064599 |
| ISBN |
9781922064592 (ebook ; pdf) |
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1922064599 |
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9781922064561 (paperback) |
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1922064564 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000058043268 |
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GBVCP 1008662739 |
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