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A Grammar of Gaagudju

By Mark Harvey

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2002
ISBN
3110172488, 9783110172485
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15881625 bytes)
Series
Contributions to the Sociology of Language
Pages
516\517
Time added
2016-11-25 11:41:52
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Description

This grammar provides an overall description of Gaagudju, a now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. Gaagudju differs from most previously described Australian languages in a number of ways. It shows marked differences in the realizations of stressed and unstressed syllables. It has complex systems of prefixation as well as suffixation. There is a clear distinction between productive and unproductive morphology, with a large amount of the morphology being unproductive. While word order is generally free, strictly ordered phrasal compounding structures are important.

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