This grammar provides an overall description of Gaagudju, a now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. Gaagudju differs from most previously described Australian languages in a number of ways. It shows marked differences in the realizations of stressed and unstressed syllables. It has complex systems of prefixation as well as suffixation. There is a clear distinction between productive and unproductive morphology, with a large amount of the morphology being unproductive. While word order is generally free, strictly ordered phrasal compounding structures are important.
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ISBN
9783111800455
Publisert
2002-01-01
Utgiver
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Mouton de Gruyter
Aldersnivå
06, P, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
507

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Biographical note

Mark Harvey is Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia.