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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-357) and indexes |
| Physical Description: | xxii, 371 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |
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| adam_text | THE LANGUAGES OF THE
KIMBERLEY, WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
William B McGregor
RoutledgeCurzon
Taylor amp; Francis Croup
LONDON AND NEW YORK
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and conventions
XVll
xix
xiv
XI
1 Introduction 1
1 1 Nature of Australian languages 1
1 2 The Kimberley environment 3
1 3 Recent history of the Kimberley region 8
1 4 History of research on Kimberley languages 14
1 5 Spelling and pronunciation 21
Further reading 26
2 Survey of Kimberley languages 27
2 1 Language, dialect, and tribe 27
2 2 Names of languages and tribes 29
2 3 Relationships among the languages of Australia 32
2 4 Language families in the Kimberley 37
Further reading 46
3 Language in Kimberley Aboriginal societies 47
3 1 Traditional Kimberley Aboriginal way of life 47
3 2 Social organisation 51
3 3 Speech styles 57
3 4 Post-contact varieties 61
3 5 Multilingualism, language choice, and code switching 71
3 6 Language shift and endangerment 73
Further reading 78
vii
CONTENTS
4 Phonetics and phonology 79
4 1 Types of sounds 79
4 2 Consonants 83
4 3 Vowels 90
4 4 Words and syllables 91
4 5 Stress 94
4 6 Connected speech 95
Further reading 96
5 Fundamental concepts of grammar 97
5 1 Words and morphemes 97
5 2 Parts-of-speech 101
5 3 Beyond the word: phrases, clauses, and sentences 106
Further reading 109
6 Pronouns and determiners 110
6 1 Person and number systems 110
6 2 Case systems 116
6 3 Bound pronouns 119
6 4 Determiners 125
Further reading 130
7 Nominals and noun phrases 132
7 1 Introductory remarks 132
7 2 Case-marking 133
7 3 Pronoun affixes 143
7 4 Noun classes and gender systems 146
7 5 Other nominal morphology 150
7 6 Noun phrases 154
Further reading 158
8 Verbs and verbal constructions 159
8 1 Types of verb and verbal construction 159
8 2 Simple verb constructions 161
8 3 Compound verb constructions 174
8 4 Origin and development of verbal constructions 185
8 5 Other verbal morphology 187
Further reading 190
viii
CONTENTS
9 Vocabulary and meaning 191
9 1 Range and depth of vocabularies 191
9 2 Metaphor and extension of meaning 196
9 3 Terms for new items and concepts 198
9 4 Number words 203
9 5 Language and space 209
9 6 Ethnoscience 213
Further reading 215
10 Clauses and sentences v 216
10 1 Introductory remarks 216
10 2 Nominal clauses 218
10 3 Verbal clauses 221
10 4 Word and phrase order 235
10 5 Complex sentences 237
Further reading 245
11 Text and discourse 246
11 1 Preliminary remarks 246
11 2 Sample narratives 248
11 3 Narrative structure 265
11 4 The interactive dimension: narrative in discourse 271
Further reading 273
12 Grammar in language use 274
12 1 The nature of grammar 274
12 2 Noun phrase discontinuity 275
12 3 Pragmatics of ergative marking 279
12 4 Narrative functions of quotation 288
Further reading 292
13 Conclusion 293
13 1 Summary 293
13 2 Gesture and sign languages 299
13 3 Applications of linguistics to modern Kimberley
Aboriginal contexts 304
13 4 Kimberley languages in a temporal perspective 316
Further reading 320
ix
CONTENTS
Notes 322
Languages and sources 336
Bibliography 338
Index of languages and language families 359
Index of names 363
Index of subjects 367
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THE LANGUAGES OF THE
KIMBERLEY, WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
William B McGregor
RoutledgeCurzon
Taylor amp; Francis Croup
LONDON AND NEW YORK
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and conventions
XVll
xix
xiv
XI
1 Introduction 1
1 1 Nature of Australian languages 1
1 2 The Kimberley environment 3
1 3 Recent history of the Kimberley region 8
1 4 History of research on Kimberley languages 14
1 5 Spelling and pronunciation 21
Further reading 26
2 Survey of Kimberley languages 27
2 1 Language, dialect, and 'tribe' 27
2 2 Names of languages and 'tribes' 29
2 3 Relationships among the languages of Australia 32
2 4 Language families in the Kimberley 37
Further reading 46
3 Language in Kimberley Aboriginal societies 47
3 1 Traditional Kimberley Aboriginal way of life 47
3 2 Social organisation 51
3 3 Speech styles 57
3 4 Post-contact varieties 61
3 5 Multilingualism, language choice, and code switching 71
3 6 Language shift and endangerment 73
Further reading 78
vii
CONTENTS
4 Phonetics and phonology 79
4 1 Types of sounds 79
4 2 Consonants 83
4 3 Vowels 90
4 4 Words and syllables 91
4 5 Stress 94
4 6 Connected speech 95
Further reading 96
5 Fundamental concepts of grammar 97
5 1 Words and morphemes 97
5 2 Parts-of-speech 101
5 3 Beyond the word: phrases, clauses, and sentences 106
Further reading 109
6 Pronouns and determiners 110
6 1 Person and number systems 110
6 2 Case systems 116
6 3 Bound pronouns 119
6 4 Determiners 125
Further reading 130
7 Nominals and noun phrases 132
7 1 Introductory remarks 132
7 2 Case-marking 133
7 3 Pronoun affixes 143
7 4 Noun classes and gender systems 146
7 5 Other nominal morphology 150
7 6 Noun phrases 154
Further reading 158
8 Verbs and verbal constructions 159
8 1 Types of verb and verbal construction 159
8 2 Simple verb constructions 161
8 3 Compound verb constructions 174
8 4 Origin and development of verbal constructions 185
8 5 Other verbal morphology 187
Further reading 190
viii
CONTENTS
9 Vocabulary and meaning 191
9 1 Range and depth of vocabularies 191
9 2 Metaphor and extension of meaning 196
9 3 Terms for new items and concepts 198
9 4 Number words 203
9 5 Language and space 209
9 6 Ethnoscience 213
Further reading 215
10 Clauses and sentences v 216
10 1 Introductory remarks 216
10 2 Nominal clauses 218
10 3 Verbal clauses 221
10 4 Word and phrase order 235
10 5 Complex sentences 237
Further reading 245
11 Text and discourse 246
11 1 Preliminary remarks 246
11 2 Sample narratives 248
11 3 Narrative structure 265
11 4 The interactive dimension: narrative in discourse 271
Further reading 273
12 Grammar in language use 274
12 1 The nature of grammar 274
12 2 Noun phrase discontinuity 275
12 3 Pragmatics of ergative marking 279
12 4 Narrative functions of quotation 288
Further reading 292
13 Conclusion 293
13 1 Summary 293
13 2 Gesture and sign languages 299
13 3 Applications of linguistics to modern Kimberley
Aboriginal contexts 304
13 4 Kimberley languages in a temporal perspective 316
Further reading 320
ix
CONTENTS
Notes 322
Languages and sources 336
Bibliography 338
Index of languages and language families 359
Index of names 363
Index of subjects 367 |
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