Download or read book Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines written by George Taplin and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines Classic Reprint written by George Taplin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines Any one who has ever undertaken to gather up the grammar of an unwritten and barbarous language, will appreciate the difficulties which have to be encountered. Inquiries are useless when addressed to minds upon whom the idea of grammar never dawned. Expressions are heard having a certain force, and it is only after years of careful observation that those expressions can be analyzed, and their true character discerned; and this difficulty is increased when, as in the language of the Narrinyeri, ellipsis and abbreviations abound. The Rev. H. A. E. Meyer, a Lutheran Missionary, made a brave attempt to master the grammar of this language in 1843, and with some success; but yet his attempt presents a great number of ludicrous mistakes to one better acquainted with it. I found I had to rely on my own observations if I was to gain any correct knowledge of the language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines written by George Taplin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines This language is spoken by the tribe of aborigines in South Australia inhabiting the country on the shores of Encounter Bay and the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert, and Coorong, and twenty miles up the River Murray. There are some trifling variations of dialect between the clans that compose the tribe, but I do not perceive such a difference as would be an impediment to a stranger learning the language. My object in committing to writing the information which I have gathered respecting the grammar of this tongue has been to present it in such a form as to enable students of Comparative Philology to use it for the purpose of rendering a modicum of help towards arriving at correct conclusions respecting the Philosophy of Language. The comparison of the grammatical structure of different languages is of the greatest importance, and the surest guide to the real relationships of language and nations. In saying this, I am almost quoting the remarks of that lamented and eminent laborer in this department of Anthropological science, the late Dr. Bleek, of Cape Town. Any one who has ever undertaken to gather up the grammar of an unwritten and barbarous language, will appreciate the difficulties which have to be encountered. Inquiries are useless when addressed to minds upon whom the idea of grammar never dawned. Expressions are heard having a certain force, and it is only after years of careful observation that those expressions can be analyzed, and their true character discerned; and this difficulty is increased when, as in the language of the Narrinyeri, ellipsis and abbreviations abound. The Rev. H. A. E. Meyer, a Lutheran Missionary, made a brave attempt to master the grammar of this language in 1843, and with some success; but yet his attempt presents a great number of ludicrous mistakes to one better acquainted with it. I found I had to rely on my own observations if I was to gain any correct knowledge of the language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Grammar of the Language Spoken by the Narrinyeri Tribe in S Australia written by Rev. George Taplin and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GRAMMAR OF THE NARRINYERI TRIB written by George Taplin and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Grammar of Yidin written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-10-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidin, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a 'mixed ergative' type that cannot easily be accommodated in terms of standard syntactic theory.
Download or read book The Folklore Manners Customs and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines written by George Taplin and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narinjari an Outline of the Language written by Colin Yallop and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I; The Narinjari language 1864-1964 by C.L. Yallop 1, Introduction; dialects, sources (author bases analysis solely on Taplin and tapes of 2 remaining speakers made by Hercus & Ellis), Taplins orthography, phonemic symbols; 2, Syntactic outline; transitivity, role of pronouns, verb phrases (and affix transference), auxiliary and dependent verbs, noun phrases and verbless constructions; 3, Morphological details; verb tenses, verbal (purposive) complement, noun cases, other noun suffixes, personal pronouns, possessive suffixes, kin terms, demonstratives, interrogatives, derivational suffixes; 4, Phonetic and phonological details; syllable structures, consonant clusters, stress, vowels (some discussion of historical developments), consonants; Glossary; lists stems and affixes mentioned in the text; Part II; George Taplin and his work on Aboriginal languages by G. Grimwade; Introduction; discusses manuscripts of Taplin; biographical note on Taplin; letters about his linguistic work; notes on the Comparative table of Australian languages by Taplin (comments on orthography, lexical comparisons, morphology of nouns, pronouns, interrogatives & verbs); Appendix I; Grimwades footnotes to the Notes...; Appendix II; Comparison of 2 different published versions with original manuscript version of a Taplin wordlist in Narinjari; selected bibliography of works by Taplin; Comparative table of the languages of the Australian Aborigines compiled by Taplin and copied by Grimwade (71 entries - basic vocabularly, some pronouns, numerals, etc.)
Download or read book An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie near Newcastle New South Wales being an account of their language traditions a customs by L E Threlkeld a others written by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Folklore Manners Customs written by George Taplin and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Australian Language as Spoken by the Awabakal the People of Awaba Or Lake Macquarie near Newcastle New South Wales written by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Aboriginal Grammar RLE Linguistics F World Linguistics written by Barry Blake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study covers a number of topics that are prominent in the grammars of Australian Aboriginal languages, especially ergativity and manifestations of the hierarchy that runs from the speech-act participants down to inanimates. This hierarchy shows up in case marking, number marking and agreement, advancement and cross-referencing. Chapter 1 provides an overall picture of Australian languages. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 deal with case systems, including voice alternations and other advancements. Chapter 5 deals with the distribution of case marking within the noun phrase. Chapter 6 deals with systems that allow the cross-referencing of bound pronouns. Chapter 7 deals with clauses which appear to have more than one verb. Chapter 8 deals with compound and complex sentences. Chapter 9 deals with word order, and emphasises a theme introduced in Chapter 5, namely the widespread use of discontinuous phrases. Chapter 10 draws together ergativity and various manifestations of the hierarchy, and attempts to interpret their distribution. The final section provides an interesting hypothesis about the evolution of core grammar in Australia.
Download or read book Oceania Linguistic Monographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Re awakening Languages written by John Hobson and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigenous languages of Australia have been undergoing a renaissance over recent decades. Many languages that had long ceased to be heard in public and consequently deemed 'dead' or 'extinct', have begun to emerge. Geographically and linguistically isolated, revitalisers of Indigenous Australian languages have often struggled to find guidance for their circumstances, unaware of the others walking a similar path. In this context Re-awakening Languages seeks to provide the first comprehensive snapshot of the actions and aspirations of Indigenous people and their supporters for the revitalisation of Australian languages in the 21st century. The contributions to this volume describe the satisfactions and tensions of this ongoing struggle. They also draw attention to the need for effective planning and strong advocacy at the highest political and administrative levels, if language revitalisation in Australia is to be successful and people's efforts are to have longevity.
Download or read book A World that was written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged a young ethnologist, Ronald Berndt, to set up camp at Murray Bridge and to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on the story to future generations. For Ronald and Catherine Berndt, this was their first fieldwork together in an illustrious joint career of almost fifty years. During long periods, principally until 1943, they laboured with pencil and paper to put it all down - a far cry from the recording techniques of today's oral historians. Their fieldnotes were worked into a rough draft of what would become, but not until recently, the finished manuscript. The book's range is encyclopaedic and engrossing - sometimes dramatic. It encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths, and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Not least, it is a record of the dramatic changes following European colonization. A World That Was is a unique contribution to Australia's cultural history. There is simply no comparable body of work, nor is there ever likely to be.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity written by Jessica Coon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects. This pattern differs markedly from nominative/accusative marking whereby transitive and intransitive subjects are treated as one grammatical class, to the exclusion of direct objects. While ergativity is sometimes referred to as a typological characteristic of languages, research on the phenomenon has shown that languages do not fall clearly into one category or the other and that ergative characteristics are not consistent across languages. Chapters in this volume look at approaches to ergativity within generative, typological, and functional paradigms, as well as approaches to the core morphosyntactic building blocks of an ergative construction; related constructions such as the anti-passive; related properties such as split ergativity and word order; and extensions and permutations of ergativity, including nominalizations and voice systems. The volume also includes results from experimental investigations of ergativity, a relatively new area of research. A wide variety of languages are represented, both in the theoretical chapters and in the 16 case studies that are more descriptive in nature, attesting to both the pervasiveness and diversity of ergative patterns.
