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A Grammar of Warrwa, Kimberley, Western Australia

As spoken by Maudie Lennard and Freddy Marker
  • William B. McGregor
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2026
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Pacific Linguistics [PL]
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This book is a descriptive grammar of Warrwa, a Nyulnyulan (non-Pama-Nyungan) language of the Kimberley region of north-western Australia. The description is based on the author’s fieldwork with the last two speakers of the language, Maudie Lennard and Freddy Marker, between the mid-1980s and early 2000s. It covers the phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax of the language, and is augmented by a wordlist and extensive text collection. The phonetics/phonology and morphology are presented in the standard segmental and item-arrangement frameworks. The syntactic description employs a functional/usage-based approach that focuses on the identification of constructions and their meanings.

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William B. McGregor, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Dedication

    V
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    Preface

    VII
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    Acknowledgements

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    Contents

    XIII
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    List of figures and maps

    XXIX
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    List of plates

    XXXI
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    List of tables

    XXXII
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    Abbreviations and conventions

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    1 Introduction

    1
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    2 Grammatical preliminaries

    33
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    3 Phonetics and phonology

    54
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    4 Nominals and pronominals

    119
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    5 Postpositions

    210
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    6 Adverbials

    268
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    7 Inflecting verbs

    330
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    8 Preverbs

    422
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    9 Minor word and morpheme classes

    442
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    10 Noun phrases

    501
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    11 Verb phrases

    553
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    12 Clausal syntax

    683
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    13 Complex sentences

    802
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    Sample texts

    867
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    Warrwa–English wordlist

    1067
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    English–Warrwa finderlist

    1090
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    List of bound grammatical morphemes

    1107
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    Appendix: Statistical distribution of consonants

    1113
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    References

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    Index of names

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    Index of languages

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    Index of topics

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March 2, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9783111401959
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Hardcover ISBN:
9783111400006
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
36
Main content:
1156
Illustrations:
18
Coloured Illustrations:
11
Tables:
20
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111401959
eBook ISBN: 9783111401959
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111400006
Keywords for this book
Warrwa; Nyulnyulan; Non-Pama-Nyungan; Australian Languages; Functional/Semiotic/Usage-Based Grammar
Audience(s) for this book
Australianist Linguists; Descriptive Linguists; Typologists; Linguists interested in Functional Approaches to Grammar
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