A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-Comparative Notes on Tangkic

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Abbreviations and conventions List of maps Part I: Grammar 1 The language and its speakers 1.1 Linguistic type 1.2 Kayardild and its neighbours 1.3 Traditional Kaiadilt culture 1.4 The Tangkic family in Australian perspective 1.5 Recent history 1.6 The Kayardild language today 1.7 Previous investigations 2 Phonology 2.1 Phoneme inventory 2.2 Isolating the word 2.3 Prosodic truncation of final /a/ 2.4 Phonotactics 2.5 Morphophonemics 2.6 Stress 3 Descriptive preliminaries 3.1 Parts of speech and phrasal categories 3.2 Word order and ellipsis 3.3 Grammatical and discourse relations 3.4 Functional domains of case inflection 4 Nominals, Part 1 4.1 Structure of the nominal word 4.2 Case inflections: forms 4.3 Nominal case functions 4.4 Verbal case 4.5 Number and related suffixes 5 Nominate, Part II 5.1 Word formation in the noun/adjective class 5.2 Pronouns 5.3 Locationals 5.4 Minor nominal classes 6 The noun phrase 6.1 The NP as a syntactic constituent in Kayardild 6.2 Syntactic functions within the NP 6.3 Modifier types 6.4 NP-splitting 6.5 Complex and apposed NPs 7 Verbals 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Final inflections: form and function 7.3 Final inflections: a comparative note 7.4 Derivations: verb-verb 7.5 Derivations: nominal-verb 7.6 Suffixation of nominal derivatives 7.7 Verbal reduplication 7.8 Noun-verb compounding 8 Structure of the verbal group 8.1 Preverbal particles 8.2 The verb complex 9 Syntax of the simple clause 9.1 Verbless clauses 9.2 Verbal clauses: basic argument structures 9.3 Verbal clauses: derived argument structures 9.4 Second predicates on the subject and other case-agreeing adjuncts 9.5 Questions 9.6 Negation 9.7 Particles, clitics and interjections 10 The modal case system 10.1 Verbal tense/mood and modal case categories 10.2 From locational to modal case meaning 10.3 The domain of modal case marking 10.4 Evolution of the Tangkic modal case systems 11 Non-finite subordinate clauses 11.1 Morphological structure of nominalized verbs 11.2 Lexical nominalizations in -n- 11.3 Lexical nominalizations in -THarrba 11.4 Nominalized clauses 11.5 Nominalized clauses: overview 11.6 Movement purpose complements 12 Finite subordinate clauses 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Odd pivot conditions and complementizing case 12.3 Functions of finite subordinate clauses 12.4 Complementized main clauses I: ellipsed matrix predicates 12.5 Complementized main clauses II: odd topic marking 12.6 The evolution of complementizing case Appendices To Grammar A The vocabulary of Kayardild kinship B The Yukulta case system C The syntactic development of complementized clauses in Lardil Part II: Texts Texts 1 Darwin Moodoonuthi: The cave at Wamakurld 2 Dugal Goongarra: Kajurku 3 Roma Kelly: The McKenzie massacre 4 Pat Gabori: Invoking the moon 5 Roma Kelly: Eclipse of the moon and the newly dead 6 Pat Gabori: Singing back the dead 7 Darwin Moodoonuthi: Nalkardarrawuru 8 Alison Dundaman: Nyinyaaki 9 Dawn Naranatjil: Wind magic 10 Dugal Goongarra: Crane, Seagull and Rock Cod 11 May Moodoonuthi, Alison Dundaman and Dawn Naranatjil: Fighting over a husband 12 Barney Charles: Text in Yangkaal Part III: Dictionary Kayardild-English dictionary References Plates Author index Language index Subject Index