The Yawuru language of West Kimberley : a meaning-based description
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The present study is a descriptive monograph of the language spoken by Yawuru Aborigines of north-west Australia. The Yawuru language is genetically classified as a member of the Nyulnyulan family. Morphologically it is counted among the so-called "prefixing languages" and has a highly complicated inflexional morphology of verbs, whereas word ordering is remarkably flexible. In terms of syntactic typology, Yawuru is an ergative language which, however, reveals an accusative-type verb....[Show more]
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Date published: | 1991 |
Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10851 |
DOI: | 10.25911/5d7637e29efd6 |
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