UID:
almafu_9960119321702883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 420 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-139-08498-4
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 9
Content:
Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they lived in harmony with each other and with their environment. Over one hundred years ago many of them were shot and poisoned by European invaders. Those allowed to survive have been barely tolerated tenants on their own lands, and have had their beliefs, habits and language help up to ridicule and scorn. In the last decade they have seen their remaining forests taken and cleared by an American company, with the destruction of sites whose remembered antiquity is many thousands of years older than the furthest event in the shallow history of their desecrators. The survivors of the three tribes have stood up to these diversities with dignity and humour. They continue to look forward to the day when they may again be allowed to live in peaceful possession of some of their own lands, and may be accorded a respect that they have been denied, but which they have been forcibly made to accord to others.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of maps and plates -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Australian languages -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 Phonology -- 1.3 Word classes -- 1.4 Syntax -- 1.5 Pronoun -- 1.6 Noun and adjective -- 1.7 Verb -- 1.8 Interrogatives -- 1.9 Particles and clitics -- 1.10 Interjections -- 1.11 Lexicon -- 1.12 The development of Australian languages -- Dyirbal: the language and its speakers -- 2.1 Linguistic type -- 2.2 Dialects -- 2.3 Surrounding languages -- 2.4 Cultural background -- 2.5 'Mother-in-law language' -- 2.6 Recent history of the tribes -- 2.7 Outline of phonology -- Word classes -- 3.1 Semantic content of the open word classes -- 3.2 Nominals: nouns and adjectives -- 3.3 Pronouns -- 3.4 Verbals: verbs and adverbals -- 3.5 Time qualifiers -- Syntax -- 4.1 Simple sentences -- 4.2 Noun phrases -- 4.3 Verb complexes -- 4.4 Implicated phrases -- 4.5 Discourse structuring -- 4.6 Nominalisations of verbals -- 4.7 Verbalisations -- 4.8 Reflexive and reciprocal constructions -- 4.9 Instrumental and comitative constructions -- 4.10 Relative clauses -- 4.11 Possessive phrases -- 4.12 Imperative constructions -- 4.13 Other constructions -- 4.14 Time qualification -- 4.15 Particles -- 4.16 Clitics -- 4.17 Interjections -- Deep syntax -- 5.1 Points to be explained -- 5.2 Dyirbal as a nominative-ergative language -- 5.3 Underlying syntactic relations -- 5.4 Tree representation of topic chains -- 5.5 Relative clauses and possessive phrases -- 5.6 -ŋura constructions -- 5.7 Instrumental and comitative constructions -- 5.8 Actor NPs -- 5.9 Minimal sentences -- 5.10 Set representation -- 5.11 Summary of rules -- Morphology -- 6.1 Morphology of nouns and adjectives -- 6.2 Pronominal morphology -- 6.3 Verbal morphology.
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6.4 Morphology of time qualifiers -- 6.5 Morphology of noun and verb markers -- 6.6 Morphology of interrogative forms -- 6.7 Universal affixes -- Phonology -- 7.1 Systems of phonological features -- 7.2 Word structures -- 7.3 Phonic realisations of phonological systems -- 7.4 Statistical support for phonological description -- 7.5 Special phonological processes -- 7.6 A morphophonological rule -- 7.7 r and l -- 7.8 Word order -- Semantics -- 8.1 Guwal-Dyalŋuy correspondences -- 8.2 Verb semantics -- 8.3 Adverbal semantics -- 8.4 Noun semantics -- 8.5 Adjective semantics -- 8.6 Semantics of time qualifiers -- Lexicon -- 9.1 Structure of Guwal roots -- 9.2 Structure of Dyalŋuy roots -- 9.3 Loan words -- 9.4 Onomatopoeia -- Prehistory -- 10.1 Lexical diffusion in Australia -- 10.2 Origin and movement of the Dyirbal tribes -- 10.3 Internal history of Dyirbal -- Dyirbal logic -- Previous work on Dyirbal -- Texts -- Text XV -- Text XXXIb -- Text XXV -- Vocabulary -- List of Dyirbal affixes -- References -- Index of Australian Languages -- Plate section.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-09748-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-08510-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084987
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