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A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa

Mushin provides the first full grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered language of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region in Northern Australia. Garrwa is typologically interesting because of its uncertain status in the Australian language family, its pronouns and its word order...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mushin, Ilana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton 2012, ©2012
Series:Pacific Linguistics
Subjects:
Australian Aboriginal Languages
Australische Sprachen
Garawa Language > grammar
Online Access:
Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • List of glossing conventions
  • 1 The Garrwa language and its speakers
  • 1.1 Garrwa country and contact history
  • 1.2 Language status
  • 1.3 Linguistic affiliation
  • 1.4 Social organization
  • 1.5 Previous linguistic work on Garrwa
  • 1.6 A note on the referencing of examples
  • 2 Phonology
  • 2.1 Consonants
  • 2.1.1 Segmental phonemes
  • 2.1.2 Palato-velar consonant
  • 2.1.3 Phonemic status of retroflex
  • 2.1.4 Lenition
  • 2.1.5 Consonant clusters
  • 2.2 Vowels
  • 2.3 Phonotactics
  • 2.3.1 Syllable structure
  • 2.3.2 Word-final /n/
  • 2.4 Stress
  • 2.5 Morphophonemics
  • 2.5.1 Reduplication
  • 2.5.2 Loss of segments in connected speech
  • 2.6 English loanwords
  • 3 Grammatical overview
  • 3.1 Morphosyntactic typology
  • 3.2 Word classes
  • 3.2.1 Nouns
  • 3.2.2 Verbs
  • 3.2.3 Closed classes: Pronouns, demonstratives, and directionals
  • 3.2.3.1 Pronouns
  • 3.2.3.2 Demonstratives
  • 3.2.3.3 Directionals
  • 3.2.4 Particles and clitics
  • 4 Nouns
  • 4.1 Common nouns
  • 4.2 Kinship nouns
  • 4.2.1 Single kin terms
  • 4.2.2 Dyadic kin terms
  • 4.2.3 Kinship morphology
  • 4.3 Numerals and other quantity nouns
  • 4.4 Nominal case-marking
  • 4.4.1 Ergative -wanyi
  • 4.4.2 Dative -nyi
  • 4.4.3 Locative -(i)na
  • 4.4.4 Allative -yurri
  • 4.4.5 Ablative -nanyi
  • 4.4.6 Translocative -yangka
  • 4.5 Other mominal morphology
  • 4.5.1 Yudi 'with'
  • 4.5.2 -Mirra 'intensifier'
  • 4.5.3 -Yurru 'deceased'
  • 4.6 Number marking for human referents
  • 4.6.1 -Wuya 'dual'
  • 4.6.2 -Muku 'plural'
  • 4.7 Possession
  • 5 Pronouns
  • 5.1 Pronominal categories
  • 5.2 Pronominal case marking
  • 5.3 Variation in pronominal forms
  • 5.3.1 Trisyllabic and disyllabic forms of pronouns
  • 5.3.2 Reduction of first person singular pronouns
  • 5.4 Compound pronouns
  • 5.5 Reflexive/reciprocal pronouns

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