Murrinhpatha morphology and phonology
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 ance...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston ; Berlin
De Gruyter Mouton
2019, ©2019
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| Series: | Pacific Linguistics
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations and glossing conventions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Social setting and language ecology
- 3. Segmental sound patterns
- 4. Morphologically specific sound patterns
- 5. Finite verb stem inflection
- 6. Predicate inflectional suffixes
- 7. Nominal and phrasal morphology
- 8. Complex verbs and compounding
- 9. Murrinhpatha wordhood and gradient morphology
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- References
- Index