Author: Alan Charles Dench
Publisher: Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Janet Sharp
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Category : Australian languages
Languages : en
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Category : Australian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Author: Janet Sharp
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Phonology and orthography notes, comments on grammar, kinship terms, wordlists and texts in Banyjima, Manyjilyjarra, Martuthunira, Ngarla, Ngarluma, Nyangumarta , Yindjibarndi and Warnman.

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Category : Australian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Author: Nick Thieberger
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Gives location, variant spelling, classification, linguistic situation, research and bibliographic information for all languages in regions south of Kimberleys; notes on Aboriginal English and Kriol; extensive annotated bibliography; indexes to variant language spellings, and to linguists.

Author: Gerhard Leitner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110197847
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in any of the areas concerned. The collection edited by Leitner and Malcolm fills this gap. Looking at Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and their changing habitats from pre-colonial times to the present, the book covers languages from a structural and functional linguistic perspective, moves on to the issue of cultural maintenance and then turns to language policy, planning and the educational and legal dimensions. Among the many themes discussed are: the social and linguistic history of language contact after 1788 (including the Macassans); the demographic base of indigenous languages; traditional indigenous languages; results of language contact such as the modification of traditional languages and the rise of contact languages (pidgins, creoles, esp. Kriol, Torres Strait Creole, and Aboriginal English); the impact of the Aboriginal languages on mainstream Australian English; maintenance, shift, revival and documentation of indigenous and contact languages; language planning; language in education; language in the media; language in the law courts. The contributors are leading experts in their fields. The book can serve as a reader for university courses but also as a state-of-the-art work and resource for specialists like applied linguists or educational planners.

Author: Juliette Blevins
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824823757
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This book presents the first detailed sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. This language was once spoken along the lower Murchison River, from Kalbarri inland, and south to present-day Northampton and Geraldton, but has remained largely unknown until recent years. Nhanda is based on the author's fieldwork in Western Australia from 1993 to 1998 with one of the last speakers of the language, and also incorporates notes of early explorers and linguists who passed through the area. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a comprehensive study of Nhanda sound patterns, major sections on nominal and verbal morphology, and descriptions of simple sentences and constituent order. Each chapter is rich in data and provides comparative evidence with important implications for historical relationships between the languages of Australia. The volume also includes Nhanda-English and English-Nhanda alphabetical vocabularies and an alphabetical list of Nhanda affixes.

Author: John Mansfield
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501503103
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Murrinhpatha is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in a region of tropical savannah and tidal inlets on the north coast of the continent. Some 3000 speakers live mostly in the towns of Wadeye and Nganmarriyanga, though they maintain close ties to their traditional lands, totems and spirit ancestors. Murrinhpatha word structure is highly complex, and quite distinct from the better-known Pama-Nyungan languages of central and southern Australia. Murrinhpatha is characterised by prolific compounding, clitic clusters, cumulative inflection, irregular allomorphy and phonological assimilation. This book provides a comprehensive account of these phenomena, giving particular attention to questions of morphological constituency, lexical storage, and whether there is really such thing as a ‘word’ unit.

Author: Albert Burgman
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ISBN: 9781875946280
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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