Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia
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Australian Languages
Author_William B. McGregor
Beagle Bay
Bound Pronouns
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clausal
clause
Compound Verb Construction
Conjugation Classes
Conjugation Markers
Dampier Land
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Ergative Marking
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Free Pronouns
Intonation Unit
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Intransitive Clause
Kimberley Aboriginal
Kimberley Languages
Modern Languages
Nominal Clauses
non-pama
non-Pama Nyungan Language
nyulnyulan
Nyulnyulan Languages
nyungan
Pama Nyungan Languages
pamanyungan
Pronoun Enclitics
Pronoun Prefixes
Secondary Predicates
Transitive Clause
transitivity
UVs
Verbal Clauses
Product details
- ISBN 9780415308083
- Weight: 793g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to children, most of whom speak Kriol (a new language that arose about half a century ago from an earlier Pidgin English) or Aboriginal English (a dialect of English) as their mother tongue and usual language of communication. This book describes the Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in this region.
William B. McGregor is Professor of Linguistics at Aarhus University. He has studied Kimberley languages for more than two decades, publishing grammatical descriptions of four, and articles on a variety of topics including their grammar, history, semantics and discourse organisation.
