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The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia

Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134396023
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia written by William B. McGregor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to children, most of whom speak Kriol (a new language that arose about half a century ago from an earlier Pidgin English) or Aboriginal English (a dialect of English) as their mother tongue and usual language of communication. This book describes the Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in this region.

Handbook of Kimberley Languages: General information

Author : William McGregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Kimberley Languages: General information written by William McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region

Author : Nick Thieberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region written by Nick Thieberger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives location, variant spelling, classification, linguistic situation, research and bibliographic information for all languages in regions south of Kimberleys; notes on Aboriginal English and Kriol; extensive annotated bibliography; indexes to variant language spellings, and to linguists.

Studies in Kimberley Languages in Honour of Howard Coate

Author : William McGregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Kimberley Languages in Honour of Howard Coate written by William McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Worrorra

Author : Mark Clendon
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
ISBN 13 : 1922064599
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Worrorra written by Mark Clendon and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kimberley Arafuran language Worrorra was spoken traditionally on the remote coastline and precipitously beautiful hinterland between the Walcott Inlet and the Prince Regent River. The language described here is that attested by its last full speakers, Patsy Lulpunda, Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah. Patsy Lulpunda was a child when Europeans first entered her country in 1912, and Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah both grew up on the Kunmunya mission. This comprehensive and detailed grammar provides as well an historical and cultural context for a society now drastically altered. In the 1950s Worrorra people left their traditional land and from the 1970s the number of people speaking Worrorra as their first language declined dramatically. Worrorra is a highly polysynthetic language, characterised by overarching concord and a high degree of morphological fusion. Verbal semantics involve a voicing opposition and an extensive system of evidentiality-marking. Worrorra has elaborate systems of pragmatic reference, a derivational morphology that projects agreement-class concord across most lexical categories and complex predicates that incorporate one verb within another. Nouns are distributed among five genders, the intensional properties of which define dynamic oppositions between men and women on the one hand, and earth and sky on the other. This volume will be of interest to morphologists, syntacticians, semanticists, anthropologists, typologists, and readers interested in Australian language and culture generally.

The Kimberley

Author : Victoria Laurie
Publisher : UWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781921401329
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Kimberley written by Victoria Laurie and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a highly biodiverse part of Australia, the Kimberley conveys the excitement of discovering a new species, the resurgence of life in once fire-ravaged places, and the effect of humans on the landscape. This is the Kimberley at its most beautiful, from teeming bird life to elusive desert animals; from cascading waterfalls and tangled vine thickets to wide savannah plains. The book offers world-class photography, information on up-to-date scientific discoveries, and an in-depth understanding of the balance between flora, fauna, land, and sea. Featuring over 200 stunning images in full color, The Kimberley is well-written, accessible, and engaging.

Nyulnyul

Author : William McGregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nyulnyul written by William McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonetics, morphology and syntax of Nyulnyul a non-Pama-Nyungan language, one of the Nyulnyulan family, from Beagle Bay in West Kimberley Western Australia.

Worrorran Revisited

Author : William McGregor
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book Worrorran Revisited written by William McGregor and published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Macquarie Aboriginal Words

Author : Macquarie Dictionary
Publisher : Macquarie
ISBN 13 : 1760786977
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Macquarie Aboriginal Words written by Macquarie Dictionary and published by Macquarie. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macquarie Aboriginal Words is a dictionary of words from a selection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. This ebook covers the languages of Nyungar, Gooniyandi, and Yindjibarndi from Western Australia. For each language, the following information is provided: · a brief history of the language · points on the grammar, spelling and pronunciation · an extensive wordlist organised by categories, such as animals, body parts, kin relationships, placenames, etc. · a dual index, i.e. English to Language and Language to English This ebook series is based on Macquarie Aboriginal Words originally published in print in 1994. The sheer diversity of indigenous languages in Australia must be close to the greatest and richest component of this country's national cultural heritage ... This book is much needed, as it gives a sense of the richness of a heritage which is disappearing in many areas of the country. NOEL PEARSON

Nhanda

Author : Juliette Blevins
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824823757
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Nhanda written by Juliette Blevins and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first detailed sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. This language was once spoken along the lower Murchison River, from Kalbarri inland, and south to present-day Northampton and Geraldton, but has remained largely unknown until recent years. Nhanda is based on the author's fieldwork in Western Australia from 1993 to 1998 with one of the last speakers of the language, and also incorporates notes of early explorers and linguists who passed through the area. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a comprehensive study of Nhanda sound patterns, major sections on nominal and verbal morphology, and descriptions of simple sentences and constituent order. Each chapter is rich in data and provides comparative evidence with important implications for historical relationships between the languages of Australia. The volume also includes Nhanda-English and English-Nhanda alphabetical vocabularies and an alphabetical list of Nhanda affixes.

Guide to Writing Languages of the Kimberley

Author : Kimberley Language Resource Centre Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875167135
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Writing Languages of the Kimberley written by Kimberley Language Resource Centre Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas

Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110819724
Total Pages : 1903 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas written by Stephen A. Wurm and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 1903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.

Making the Jump

Author : Rosalind Berry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875617210
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Making the Jump written by Rosalind Berry and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The focus of Making the Jump is the acceptance of Aboriginal students' home language, and the use of that language as a jumping off point for teaching Standard Australian English. It is a valuable classroom resource for teachers working with students whose home language is Kriol or Aboriginal English." -back cover.

'Every Mother's Son is Guilty'

Author : Chris Owen
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781742586687
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book 'Every Mother's Son is Guilty' written by Chris Owen and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a marvellous contribution by Chris Owen to the understanding of the role the Western Australian police force played in the colonial expansion into the Kimberley district of Western Australia."--Senator Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Elder ***Chris Owen provides a compelling account of policing in the Kimberley district from 1882, when police were established in the district, until 1905 when Dr. Walter Roth's controversial Royal Commission into the treatment of Aboriginal people was released. Owen's achievement is to take elements of all the pre-existing historiography and test them against a rigorous archival investigation. In doing so, a fuller understanding of the complex social, economic, and political changes occurring in Western Australia during the period are exposed. The policing of Aboriginal people changed from one of protection under law to one of punishment and control. The subsequent violence of colonial settlement and the associated policing and criminal justice system that developed, often of questionable legality, was what Royal Commissioner Roth termed a 'brutal and outrageous state of affairs.' Every Mother's Son is Guilty is a significant contribution to Australian and colonial criminal justice history. Subject: History, Aboriginal Studies, Criminal Justice, policing]

A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi

Author : William McGregor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230250
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi written by William McGregor and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonetic, phonological, morphologic, semantic, and syntactic description of Gooniyandi, a language of the southern Kimberleys; relationship with nearby languages, especially Bunuba; kinship terms.

Morphology and Language History

Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290962
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Morphology and Language History written by Claire Bowern and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.

Australian Languages

Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295115
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Australian Languages written by Claire Bowern and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be successfully undertaken using the Comparative Method? Is the genetic construct of a far-flung ‘Pama-Nyungan’ language family supportable by classic methods of reconstruction? Contrary to increasingly established views of the Australian scene, this book makes a major contribution to the demonstration that traditional methods can indeed be applied to these languages. These studies, introduced by chapters on subgrouping methodology and the history of Australian linguistic classification, rigorously apply the comparative method to establishing subgroups among Australian languages and justifying the phonology of Proto-Pama-Nyungan. Individual chapters can profitably be read either for their contribution to Australian linguistic prehistory or as case studies in the application of the comparative method.