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Basic materials in Mara: Grammar, texts, and dictionary

By Jeffrey Heath

Book information

Publisher
Australian National University
Year
1981
ISBN
085883247X, 9780858832473
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
40 MB (42326811 bytes)
Series
Pacific linguistics
Pages
xiv + 534 p.\552
Time added
2018-06-09 13:19:14
Languages of Australian aborigines; Comparative st

Description

Mara is a highly endangered language spoken in Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory. It is a prefixing language with three noun classes (masculine, feminine, and neuter) and a singular-plural-dual distinction. It is characterized by an intricate aspectual system, elaborate kin terms, no definite structure for relative clause construction, and a complex demonstrative system.

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