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A Grammar of Bilinarra

An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory
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Published/Copyright: 2014
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Pacific Linguistics [PL]
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Volume 640 | Pacific Linguistics [PL]

About this book

Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021
by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages

This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered language with only one speaker remaining in 2012 and no child learners. The materials on which this grammatical description is based were collected by the authors over a 20 year period from the last first-language speakers of the language, most of whom have since passed away. Bilinarra is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup of Pama-Nyungan which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa family, which also includes Warlpiri. It is non-configurational, with nominals commonly omitted, arguments cross-referenced by pronominal clitics and word order grammatically free and largely determined by information structure. In this grammatical description much attention is paid to its morphosyntax, including case morphology, the pronominal clitic system and complex predicates. A particular strength of the volume is the provision of sound files for example sentences, allowing the reader access to the language itself.

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Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland; Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne.

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    Frontmatter

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    Table of contents

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    Chapter 1 The language and its speakers

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgements

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    List of tables

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    List of figures

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    List of abbreviations

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    Recording metadata

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    Map

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    Chapter 2 Phonology

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    Chapter 3 Parts of speech

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    Chapter 4 Nominals 1: Nouns, case, adnominal and derivational morphology

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    Chapter 5 Nominals 2: Demonstratives, interrogatives, directionals and possessives

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    Chapter 6 Pronouns

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    Chapter 7 Inflecting verbs and coverbs

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    Chapter 8 Syntax of simple sentences

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    Chapter 9 Complex sentences

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    Appendix

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    Word list

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    List of suffixes

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    List of enclitics

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    References

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    Index of subjects

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    Index of suffixes and clitics by gloss

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    Conventions used in transcription and glossing

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    Conventions used to indicate source of data

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eBook published on:
December 12, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9781614512745
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December 12, 2013
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9781614512684
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Front matter:
33
Main content:
525
Tables:
49
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512745
eBook ISBN: 9781614512745
Hardcover ISBN: 9781614512684
Keywords for this book
Australian Aboriginal Languages; Typology; Grammar
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers and Advanced Students with an Interest in Aboriginal Languages.
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