Chapter 6. Independent pronouns and person-marking in the verb

Chapters in this book

1. I-XXIV I
2. WARDΑΜΑΝ GRAMMAR
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 2. Segmental phonology 11
5. Chapter 3. Process phonology 25
6. Chapter 4. Word classes 57
7. Chapter 5. Nominal classes, inflection and derivation 61
8. Chapter 6. Independent pronouns and person-marking in the verb 107
9. Chapter 7. Demonstratives, interrogatives, and adverbs 137
10. Chapter 8. Categories of the finite verb, and the verb in the clause 171
11. Chapter 9. Other aspects of word formation 215
12. Chapter 10. Issues in constituency and word order 223
13. Chapter 11. Particles, particle syntax and clausal complements 261
14. Chapter 12. Clausal particles, conjunctions, and interjections 291
15. WARDΑΜΑΝ TEXTS
16. Text I. Elsie Raymond, talking of her girlhood 331
17. Text II. Jalijbang ‘moon dreaming’ 367
18. Text III. Story of Mejern-bulud and other incidents of European-Aboriginal clash 377
19. Text IV. Stopping the grog 419
20. Text V. Wurrguru ‘devils’ 421
21. Text VI. Dalyarra, pregnant women’s fear of visual penetration 429
22. Text VII. Warnaba ‘spirits of the grass’ 435
23. Text VIII. Child spirits 440
24. Text IX. Galapin ‘Galloping Jack’s’, a place on the Katherine River 443
25. Text X. Godjogodjog ‘peaceful dove’ 456
26. Text XI. Onion 462
27. Text XII. Naribu ‘pearlshell’, a trade item 470
28. Text XIII. Jarlarla-ya and Nimji, places on Wiueroo Station 474
29. Text XIV. Geberrung, a permanent water on Willeroo Station 478
30. Text XV. Goyin ‘honey’ 488
31. Text XVI. Mardirdguya ‘two sparrow hawks’ 493
32. Text XVII. Narru, learning to dodge 498
33. Text XVIII. Welfare days, taking away children 503
34. Text XIX. Menngen ‘white cockatoo’ 509
35. Text XX. Gadi 'lily root' 511
36. Text XXI. Story of Mr Court 517
37. Text XXII. Story of Roy Bartlam 523
38. Text XXIII. Skins and marriage 529
39. Text XXIV. Gorrondolmi and wirninginya, rainbow and quiet snake 536
40. Text XXV. Marriage 542
41. Text XXVI. Yirlorloban ‘taipan’ 545
42. Text XXVII. Story of Wiyorlwonyang, jiyila ‘well’ on Willeroo Station 549
43. Text XXVIII. Story of Banggin George being shot at Delamere 558
44. Text XXIX. Echidna and the Mt. Gregory area 563
45. Text XXX. Station 569
46. Vocabulary in semantic fields 575
47. Wardaman word list 580
48. References 611
49. Index to Wardaman grammar 614