A sketch grammar of dyabugay

Patz, Elisabeth

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A sketch grammar of dyabugay

Date

1980

Authors

Patz, Elisabeth

Abstract

Dyabugay belongs to the Paman or Cape York Peninsula group of the Pama-Nyungan phylic family and can be regarded as a typical Australian language. It is entirely suffixing and has wide variation possibilities in word order, although the preferred order appears to be Subject-Object-Verb.