{"product_id":"grammar-of-gaagudju","title":"Grammar of Gaagudju","description":"\u003cp\u003eGaagudju is a previously undescribed and now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. This grammar provides an overall description of the language. Australian languages generally show a high degree of structural similarity to one another. Gaagudju conforms to some of the common Australian patterns, yet diverges significantly from others. Thus while it has a standard Australian phonological inventory, its prosodic systems differ from those of most Australian languages, with stressed and unstressed syllables showing marked differences in realisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLike many northern languages, it has complex systems of both prefixation and suffixation to nominals and verbs. Prefixation provides information about nominal classification (4 classes), mood, and pronominal cross-reference (Subjects, Objects, and Indirect Objects). Suffixation provides information about case, tense, and aspect. As in many languages, there is a clear distinction between productive and unproductive morphology. Gaagudju differs from most Australian languages in that a considerable amount of its morphology is unproductive, showing complex and irregular allomorphic variation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGaagudju is like most Australian languages in that it may be described as a free word order language. However, word order is not totally free and strictly ordered phrasal compounding structures are significant (e.g. in the formation of denominal verbs).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57334529065304,"sku":"9783110172485","price":235.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110172485.jpg?v=1779276683","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/grammar-of-gaagudju","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}