32.2968, Books: A Grammar of Gurindji: Meakins, McConvell

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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 17:44:00
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Gurindji: Meakins, McConvell

 


Title: A Grammar of Gurindji 
Subtitle: As spoken by Violet Wadrill, Ronnie Wavehill, Dandy Danbayarri, Biddy
Wavehill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Long Johnny Kijngayarri, Banjo Ryan, Pincher
Nyurrmiari and Blanche Bulngari 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110746884/html 


Author: Felicity Meakins
Author: Patrick McConvell

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110746884 Pages: 746 Price: Europe EURO 159.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110746839 Pages: 746 Price: Europe EURO 159.95


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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