A grammar of Kayardild : with historical-comparative notes on Tangkic / Nicholas D. Evans
- Bib ID:
- 3663369
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Evans, Nicholas
- Description:
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- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1995
- xxiv, 837 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 3110127954
- 0311012795
- Series:
- Mouton grammar library ; 15.
- Summary:
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Description of Kaiadilt culture; historic development of Tangkic languages; history of European contact and establishment of Mornington Mission; present linguistic situation, decline of indigenous languages because of Kriol and English varieties; analysis of Kayardild phonology, word classes, phrasal categories, nominal and verbal morphology, clause structure; comparison with Yukulta and Lardil; Kayardild kinship terminology; texts in Kayardild and Yangkaal; illustrated Kayardild-English dictionary.
- Notes:
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- Substantially revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D., Australian National University, 1985).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [801]-819) and indexes.
- Subject:
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- Gayardilt language -- Grammar
- Australian languages -- Queensland -- Grammar
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Languages -- Grammar
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Language - Texts and translations - Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal language
- Language - Vocabulary - Dictionaries and glossaries
- Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Nouns and ergatives
- Language - Change
- Language - Kriol
- Language - Linguistics - Phonology and phonetics
- Kayardild / Kaiadilt people (G35) (Qld SE54-06)
- Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax - Parts of speech
- Yangal language (G37) (Qld SE54-01)
- Yukulta / Gangalidda people (G34) (Qld SE54-05)
- Yangal / Gananggalinda people (G37) (Qld SE54-01)
- Language - Linguistics - Language classification
- Kayardild / Kaiadilt language (G35) (Qld SE54-06)
- Lardil language (G38) (Qld SE54-01)
- Lardil people (G38) (Qld SE54-01)
- Yukulta / Gangalidda language (G34) (Qld SE54-05)
- Tangkic language family
- Mornington Island (Qld Gulf Wellesley Islands SE54-01)
- Queensland Gulf country (Qld SE54)
- Bentinck Island (Qld Gulf Wellesley Islands SE54-02)
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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