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100 1 _aClendon, Mark
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245 1 0 _aWorrorra: a language of the north-west Kimberley coast
260 _bUniversity of Adelaide Press
_c2014
300 _a1 electronic resource (515 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aThe 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.
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653 _amark clendon
653 _aworora
653 _akimberley
653 _alinguistics
653 _akunmunya mission
653 _aaustralian languages
653 _aworrorra
653 _apolysynthetic language
653 _adaisy utemorrah
653 _apatsy lulpunda
653 _agrammar
653 _amorphological fusion
653 _aMorpheme
653 _aPredicate (grammar)
653 _aPreverb
653 _aSemantics
653 _aVerb
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