A Grammar of Ngardi As spoken by Freda Tjama, Margaret Yinjuru Bumblebee, Dora Mungkirna Rockman, Peggy Yalurrngali Rockman, Yunuja Nampijin, Dampa Yujuyu Nampijin, Maudie Mandigalli, Kathleen Padoon, Payi Payi Napangardi, Patricia Lee, Nyirrpingawurru Japaljarri, Mark Moora, Marie Mudgedell and Patrick Smith
Ngardi is a highly endangered language with fewer than 10 remaining speakers and is no longer being acquired by children. Despite the limited circulation of a draft dictionary (Cataldi, 2011), there has been no published reference grammar of this language. Upon publication, this work will constitute...
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton
2021, ©2021
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations, symbols and conventions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Phonology
- 3. Word classes
- 4. Nominals I: Case and nominal morphology
- 5. Nominals II: Nominal subclasses
- 6. Bound pronouns
- 7. Verbal morphology
- 8. Complex predication
- 9. Grammatical relations and argument structure
- 10. Auxiliaries, particles and modal constructions
- 11. Complex syntax
- Appendix: Narrative texts
- References
- Index