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Author Breen, Gavan, author.

Title Innamincka talk : a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects / Gavan Breen.

Publication Info. Canberra, Australia : ANU eView, 2015.
©2015

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Summary Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the north of the Cooper, in the northeast corner of South Australia and a neighbouring strip of Queensland. The other volume is entitled Innamincka Words. Innamincka Talk is the more technical work of the two and is intended for specialists and for interested readers who are willing to put some time and effort into studying the language. Innamincka Words is for readers, especially descendants of the original people of the area, who are interested in the language, but not necessarily interested in its more technical aspects. It is also a necessary resource for users of Innamincka Talk. These volumes document all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist who was involved with other languages at the same time. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew to the linguist student.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 13, 2017).
Contents Map : Yandruwandha and neighhbouring languages -- Introduction -- The sound system -- Pronunciation -- Organisation of sounds -- The sentence -- Word classes and paradigms -- Simple declarative sentences -- Non-declarative simple sentences -- Nominal inflection -- Noun-stem foundation -- Verb inflection -- Bound verb aspect markers -- Verb-stem foundation -- Variations on transitivity -- Coordination and subordination -- Adverbs -- Conjunctions, interjections and emphatic particles -- Clitics and emphatic suffixes.
Note Print version record.
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
Yandruwandha language -- Dialects -- Grammar.
Australian languages.
Langues australiennes.
Yandruwandha language L18
Yandruwandha people L18
Innamincka (NE SA SG54-14)
Queensland Channel Country (Qld Far West SF54, SG54)
Language - Linguistics - Phonology and phonetics
Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages
Language and languages
Yandruwandha (Australian people)
Queensland https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpJjxXPtbxKkyqvRdR3Qq
Indexed Term Australian
Other Form: Print version: Breen, Gavan. Innamincka talk. Canberra, Australia : ANU eView, 2015 1921934204
ISBN 1921934204
9781921934209 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000094914320
GBVCP 1008663174

 
    
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