A Grammar of Gaagudju
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A Grammar of Gaagudju

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  2. English
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A Grammar of Gaagudju

About this book

Gaagudju is a previously undescribed and now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. This grammar provides an overall description of the language. Australian languages generally show a high degree of structural similarity to one another. Gaagudju conforms to some of the common Australian patterns, yet diverges significantly from others. Thus while it has a standard Australian phonological inventory, its prosodic systems differ from those of most Australian languages, with stressed and unstressed syllables showing marked differences in realisation.

Like many northern languages, it has complex systems of both prefixation and suffixation to nominals and verbs. Prefixation provides information about nominal classification (4 classes), mood, and pronominal cross-reference (Subjects, Objects, and Indirect Objects). Suffixation provides information about case, tense, and aspect. As in many languages, there is a clear distinction between productive and unproductive morphology. Gaagudju differs from most Australian languages in that a considerable amount of its morphology is unproductive, showing complex and irregular allomorphic variation.

Gaagudju is like most Australian languages in that it may be described as a free word order language. However, word order is not totally free and strictly ordered phrasal compounding structures are significant (e.g. in the formation of denominal verbs).

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. List of Tables, Figures and Maps
  3. Abbreviations
  4. 1 Language owners and speakers
  5. 1.1 Location and contact history of Gaagudju language owners and speakers
  6. 1.2 Previous work
  7. 1.3 Consultants
  8. 1.4 Languages spoken in the area
  9. 1.5 Linguistics relationships of Gaagudju
  10. 2 Segmental phonology
  11. 2.1 Phonemic inventory and orthography
  12. 2.3 Consonantal variation and contrasts
  13. 2.4 Vocalic variation and contrasts
  14. 2.5 Intonation
  15. 2.6 Placement and history of stress
  16. 2.7 Realisation patterns of the long vowels
  17. 2.8 Realisation patterns of short vowels
  18. 2.9 Overview and history of vowel realisations
  19. 2.10 Reduction of unstressed syllables at word boundaries
  20. 3 Phonotactics and morphophonology
  21. 3.1 Affixation, clisis, and phonological words
  22. 3.2 Syllable structures
  23. 3.3 Morpheme initial and final segments
  24. 3.4 Morpheme-medial consonant clusters and intervocalic onsets
  25. 3.5 Inter-morphemic biconsonantal clusters
  26. 3.6 Homorganic nasal-stop clusters
  27. 3.7 Triconsonantal clusters
  28. 4 Nominals
  29. 4.1 Parts of speech
  30. 4.2 Nominal parts-of-speech
  31. 4.3 Nominal compounding and derivation
  32. 4.4 Nominal reduplication
  33. 4.5 Adjectives and gender marked nouns
  34. 4.6 Noun class membership
  35. 4.7 Agreement superclassing
  36. 4.8 Personal pronouns
  37. 4.9 Kin nouns and kinship terminology
  38. 4.10 Demonstratives
  39. 4.11 The history of noun class marking
  40. 4.12 Locationals
  41. 4.13 Temporals
  42. 5 Verbs
  43. 5.1 Verbal predicate structures
  44. 5.2 The verbal complex
  45. 5.3 Compound verbs
  46. 5.4 Unproductive phrasal verbs
  47. 5.5 The prefix complex
  48. 5.6 The directional prefixes
  49. 5.7 Pronominal prefixes
  50. 5.8 Conjugational groupings
  51. 5.9 Tense, aspect, and mood categories
  52. 5.10 Hortative
  53. 5.11 Positive imperative
  54. 6 Clitics and phrasal compounds
  55. 6.1 Clitics
  56. 6.2 Argument marking
  57. 6.3 Indirect object clitics
  58. 6.4 Dative and locative clitics
  59. 6.5 Quantification
  60. 6.6 The ordering of clitics
  61. 6.7 Phrasal compound structures
  62. 6.8 Part-whole relationships
  63. 7 Syntax
  64. 7.1 Word order, proposition classes and clause types
  65. 7.2 The noun phrase
  66. 7.3 Negation
  67. 7.4 Grammatical relations
  68. 7.5 Lexicalised cross-reference patterns
  69. 7.6 Transitivity
  70. 7.7 Detransitivisation
  71. 7.8 Causatives
  72. 7.9 Ascriptive, equational and existential propositions
  73. 7.10 Possessive propositions
  74. 7.11 Interclausal Relations
  75. 7.12 Particles
  76. Appendices
  77. 1 Nominals and particles: Gaagudju – English
  78. 2 Verbs: Gaagudju – English
  79. 3 English – Gaagudju finderlist for nominals and particles
  80. 4 English – Gaagudju finderlist for verbs
  81. 5 Mandanenj gerramaana, the crying orphan story
  82. References
  83. Author index
  84. Land and language index
  85. Subject index