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A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa

Ilana Mushin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:15th Nov '12

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Mushin provides the first full grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered language of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region in Northern Australia. Garrwa is typologically interesting because of its uncertain status in the Australian language family, its pronouns and its word order syntax. This book covers Garrwa phonology, morphology and syntax, with a particular focus on the use of grammar in discourse. The grammatical description is supplemented with a word list and text collection, including transcriptions of ordinary conversation.

ISBN: 9781614513063

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 845g

494 pages