22.4215, Books: Language Documentation/Typology: Dixon (Ed), Hosokawa

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Date: 23-Oct-2011
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: The Yawuru language of West Kimberley: a meaning-based
description: Dixon (Ed), Hosokawa

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From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: The Yawuru language of West Kimberley: a meaning-based description: Dixon (Ed), Hosokawa

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Title: The Yawuru language of West Kimberley: a meaning-based
description 
Series Title: Outstanding grammars from Australia 02  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Book URL: www.lincom-shop.eu 

Author: Komei Hosokawa
Editor: RMW Dixon

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862880935 Pages: 531 Price: Europe EURO 78.00

Abstract:

The present study is a descriptive monograph of the language spoken by 
Yawuru Aborigines of north-west Australia. The Yawuru language is 
genetically classified as a member of the Nyulnyulan family. Morphologically 
it is counted among the so-called "prefixing languages" and has a highly 
complicated inflexional morphology of verbs, whereas word ordering is 
remarkably flexible. In terms of syntactic typology, Yawuru is an ergative 
language which, however, reveals an accusative-type verb agreement 
System.

The practical orthography for the Yawuru language employed in this 
monograph is allophonic (i.e. slightly over-differentiating) rather than purely 
phonemic. Reasons for using such a spelling System are stated in Chapter 3.

Throughout the description, considerable weight is laid on elucidating 
semantic aspects of the morphology and syntax of the language rather than 
merely presenting forms and their combinations. A meaningwise approach is 
central to this description, particularly in the treatment of verbal and 
pronominal morphology (Chapters 4 and 7). Also semantically-oriented are 
accounts of preverbs (Chapter 5), case marking (Chapter 6), adverbs 
(Chapter 8), reduplication (Chapter 9) and syntactic construction patterns 
(Chapter 10). A large number of sentential examples, more often context-
bound than not, will be cited in order to substantiate the points of discussion. 
Unless otherwise noted, all the sample sentences are taken from native 
Speakers' natural spontaneous utterances.

Comparative linguistics is outside the scope of this study, although several 
important facts are pointed out in footnotes. 

Linguistic Field(s): Australian Languages
                     Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Yawuru (ywr)

Written In: English  (eng)

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