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A Grammar of Gurindji - As spoken by Violet Wadrill, Ronnie Wavehill, Dandy Danbayarri, Biddy Wavehill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Long Johnny Kijngayarri, Banjo Ryan, Pincher Nyurrmiari and Blanche Bulngari (Hardcover)
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A Grammar of Gurindji - As spoken by Violet Wadrill, Ronnie Wavehill, Dandy Danbayarri, Biddy Wavehill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Long Johnny Kijngayarri, Banjo Ryan, Pincher Nyurrmiari and Blanche Bulngari (Hardcover)
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]
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Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the
documentation of endangered languages Gurindji is a Pama-Nyungan
language of north-central Australia. It is a member of the Ngumpin
subgroup which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa group. The
phonology is typically Pama-Nyungan; the phoneme inventory contains
five places of articulation for stops which have corresponding
nasals. It also has three laterals, two rhotics and three vowels.
There are no fricatives and, among the stops, voicing is not
phonemically distinctive. One striking morpho-phonological process
is a nasal cluster dissimilation (NCD) rule. Gurindji is
morphologically agglutinative and suffixing, exhibiting a mix of
dependent-marking and head-marking. Nominals pattern according to
an ergative system and bound pronouns show an accusative pattern.
Gurindji marks a further 10 cases. Free and bound pronouns
distinguish person (1st inclusive and exclusive, 2nd and 3rd) and
three numbers (minimal, unit augmented and augmented). The Gurindji
verb complex consists of an inflecting verb and coverb. Inflecting
verbs belong to a closed class of 34 verbs which are grammatically
obligatory. Coverbs form an open class, numbering in the hundreds
and carrying the semantic weight of the complex verb
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