| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 494 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-494). |
| Contents |
Segmental phonology -- Morphophonology -- Nouns and noun classes -- Indicative mood and basic verbal morphology -- Adjectives and inalienable nouns -- Pronouns, demonstratives, anaphors, deictics -- Optative, counterfactual and exercitive moods -- Number -- Adverbs and postpostional phrases -- Complex predicates -- Experiencer constructions -- Objects and possession -- Complement clauses -- Subjunctive verbs -- Middle voice -- Discourse cohesion -- Kinship terms. |
| Summary |
Worrorra is a highly polysynthetic language, characterised by overarching concord and a high degree of morphological fusion. Verbal semantics involve a voicing opposition and an extensive system of evidentiality-marking. Worrorra has elaborate systems of pragmatic reference, a derivational morphology that projects agreement-class concord across most lexical categories and complex predicates that incorporate one verb within another. Nouns are distributed among five genders, the intensional properties of which define dynamic oppositions between men and women on the one hand, and earth and sky on the other. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Worora language -- Grammar.
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Worora language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Worrorra |
| Other Form: |
1-922064-56-4 |
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1-922064-59-9 |
| ISBN |
9781922064592 (ebook: pdf) |
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1922064599 |
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9781922064561 (paperback) |
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1922064564 |
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