Gandanguurra : the language of the mountain people - and beyond / Jim Barrett
- Bib ID:
- 7132382
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barrett, Jim, author
- Description:
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- Glenbrook, NSW : Neville Bush Holdings Pty Ltd, 2015
- 131 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 30 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780994513502 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Annotation pending.
- Full contents:
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- The language and its major recorders
- The early recorders
- The conflictions in the language
- Local groups
- The word Gandanguurra
- The word Burragorang
- Map of the Gandanguurra territory
- The alphabet (and basic grammar)
- Verbs and pronouns
- Nouns and case marking
- Demonstratives
- Word building
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Yes and no
- The degrees of comparison
- Plurality
- Aphaeresis and apocope
- Loan words
- Gender
- Songs
- Dog and dingo
- The word "gaduumba"
- The word nguurra [camp]
- Place names
- The vagaries of place names in the Blue Mountains
- Gandanguurra and its rivers
- The word for "water" Ngadyuung
- The legend of the origin of water
- Phrases
- Abbreviations
- Definitions
- Appendix 1: Relationship with Ngunawal & Ngarrugu (midang suffix fixing)
- Appendix 2: Midhang map
- Appendix 3: A proposal on the two demonstratives
- Appendix 4: Guulaa (man, fellow, person etc.)
- Appendix 5 (a) End notes (publications)
- Appendix 5 (b) End notes (References)
- Appendix 6: Map of lower Burragorang
- Appendix 7 : Recorders of the Gandaguurra language
- Appendix 8: Gandanguurra word list (1) General (2) Verbs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113)
- Subject:
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- Gandangara language -- New South Wales -- Burragorang Valley
- Gundungurra (Australian people) -- Languages -- Etymology
- Australian languages -- New South Wales -- Burragorang Valley
- Language - Linguistics - Language elicitation - Translated
- Language - Vocabulary - Word lists
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Gundungurra / Gundungura / Gandangara language (S60) (NSW SI56-09)
- Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax
- Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax - Parts of speech
- Language - Linguistics - Phonology and phonetics
- Literature and stories
- Ngunawal / Ngunnawal language (D3) (NSW SI55-16)
- Burragorang Valley (N.S.W.) -- History
- Burragorang (NSW SI56-09)
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2015
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