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A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa

By Ilana Mushin

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2012
ISBN
9781614512417, 9781614513063
DOI
10.1515/9781614512417
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1628579 bytes)
Series
Pacific Linguistics [PL]; 637
Pages
494\494
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-29 13:47:59

Description

Mushin provides the first full grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered language of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region in Northern Australia. Garrwa is typologically interesting because of its uncertain status in the Australian language family, its pronouns and its word order syntax. This book covers Garrwa phonology, morphology and syntax, with a particular focus on the use of grammar in discourse. The grammatical description is supplemented with a word list and text collection, including transcriptions of ordinary conversation.

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