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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:34:56
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Batjamalh Grammar and Dictionary: Dixon (ed.), Ford
Title: Batjamalh Grammar and Dictionary
Series Title: Outstanding grammars from Australia 17
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1XxHqeS
Author: Lysbeth Julie Ford
Editor: RMW Dixon
Online resource: ISBN: 9783862885589 Pages: 276 Price: Europe EURO 86.80
Abstract:
Batjamalh is an endangered isolate from the Daly River region of Northwest
Australia. Only one fluent speaker remains of this head-marking polysynthetic
Australian language whose complex phonology and morpho-syntax were described
in detail for the first time by Lysbeth Ford in her 1990 MA thesis for ANU. In
1997, Ford published in limited edition a Batjamalh dictionary, which sketched
the morpho-syntax of the language with examples from Batjamalh wangga
song-texts. This volume makes both works available to the wider public.
Batjamalh is unusual amongst Australian languages in that its phonology
exhibits vowel harmony, and the pronominal prefixes to its transitive verbs
combine A+O marking. However, its vestigial noun classifiers, fossilised noun
incorporation and sole Irrealis allomorph are probably borrowed from Emmi, the
neighbouring language whose speakers intermarried with Batjamalh speakers;
like Emmi, and other languages in the Daly River Sprachbund, the syntax of
Batjamalh simple and complex clauses involves serial constructions where
commonly-used transitive and intransitive verbs have been poly-grammaticised
to provide aspectual information.
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Lexicography
Typology
Subject Language(s): Ami (amy)
Wadjiginy (wdj)
Written In: English (eng)
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