A Grammar of Warrongo

Preface......Page 1
Acknowledgements......Page 7
List of tables and figures......Page 19
List of maps and photos......Page 21
List of abbreviations and symbols......Page 22
1.1. Linguistic type......Page 31
1.2. Names of the language and people......Page 32
1.3. Dialects......Page 33
1.4. Territory and neighbouring languages......Page 34
1.5. Environmental and socio-cultural background......Page 44
1.6. Special styles of speech and songs......Page 63
1.7. Post-contact history......Page 68
1.8. Studies on the Warrongo language......Page 70
1.9. Present-day situation......Page 81
2.1. Phonemes and their realizations......Page 83
2.2. Phonotactics......Page 124
2.3. Statistics......Page 151
2.4. Alternation between phonemes......Page 154
2.5. Natural classes......Page 158
2.6. ‘Phonological processes’......Page 160
2.7. Stress......Page 163
2.8. Pitch......Page 171
2.9. Connected speech......Page 172
2.10. Careful speech......Page 177
2.11. Women’s pronunciation (?)......Page 180
2.12. Ideophones......Page 181
2.13. Adaptation of foreign words......Page 182
2.14. Practical orthography......Page 185
3.1. Word classes......Page 186
3.2. Noun morphology (1): case inflection......Page 194
3.3. Pronoun morphology......Page 204
3.4. Adverb morphology (1): case inflection......Page 206
3.5. Notes on case inflection......Page 213
3.6. Meanings and functions of cases......Page 215
3.7. Noun morphology (2): derivation......Page 252
3.8. Adverb morphology (2): derivation......Page 275
3.9. Verb morphology (1): introduction and inflection......Page 283
3.10. Meanings and functions of conjugational categories......Page 296
3.11. Verb morphology (2): derivation......Page 328
4.2. Types of sentences......Page 348
4.3. Types of clauses......Page 355
4.4. Constituents of clauses......Page 368
4.5. Types of phrases......Page 370
4.6. Order of constituents......Page 402
4.7. Verb formation: -bi-L ‘INTR’, -nga-L ‘TR’, and -(m)ba-L ‘TR’......Page 413
4.8. Complex sentences involving purposive subordination......Page 442
4.9. Antipassive construction......Page 457
4.10. Subordination with the enclitic =ngomay ‘after, if, because’......Page 536
4.11. Reflexive and middle constructions......Page 545
4.12. Reciprocal construction......Page 567
4.13. Iterative construction......Page 592
4.14. Applicative construction......Page 606
4.15. Participial subordination......Page 632
4.16. Relative clause......Page 643
4.17. Apprehensional construction ‘lest ... should’......Page 644
4.18. Subordination without any morphosyntactic marker\r......Page 648
4.19. ‘And’, ‘but’ and ‘for’......Page 664
4.20. Expression of possession and existence......Page 666
4.21. Ngani ‘Whatsisname’......Page 695
4.22. Sentence-topic word......Page 699
4.23. Yamanyon ‘similar, like’: word and enclitic (?)......Page 701
4.24. Adverbs of modality and the like......Page 703
4.25. Enclitics......Page 712
4.26. Interjections......Page 728
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Text 2: An excerpt from Tape 72/28......Page 743
Text 3: An excerpt from Tape 72/23......Page 749
References......Page 753
Index of subjects......Page 766
Index of languages......Page 776
Index of names......Page 778