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.

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:

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.

Download or read book Languages of the Kimberley Region written by Joyce Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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:

Download or read book The Djaru Language of Kimberley Western Australia written by Tasaku Tsunoda and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background information, comparison with neighbouring languages, previous works; phonology, work classes, syntax, morphology, avoidance language; texts.

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.

Download or read book Handbook of Southern Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book A Description of Nyigina written by Bronwyn Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language and World View in the Northern Kimberley Western Australia written by Arthur Capell and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlook in terms of expression in languages of area; detailed examination of Ngarinyin language structure, myth of Creation; comparison with Woora, Wunambal, Unggumi, Maung, Nunggabuyu, Andiljaugwa, Gwini.

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 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wunambal written by Th©♭r©·se L. Carr and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grammar of Kuniyanti written by William McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of WA Aboriginal Languages south of the Kimberley Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General information and bibliography for Western Australian languages of South-East, South-West, Moora to Gascoyne, Gascoyne River to Hedland, Hedland to Kimberley and Western Desert, includes post-contact languages Aboriginal and Kriol, an annotated bibliography of Western Australian Aboriginal languages and alternative spellings of language names.

Download or read book The languages of the northern Kimberley W A written by Arthur Capell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives information on relations between Wunambal, Wilawila, Gambere, Ginan, Forrest River, Worora (Jawdjibara, Windjarumi, Unggumi, Unggarangi, Umida) and Ngarinjin (Guwidj, Munumburu, Woljamidi, Waladjangari) language groups (map shows locations and related languages in Djerag & Bunaba groups), discusses verb - phrase phenomena & noun - phrase phenomena as special features of northern Kimberley languages; second part discusses noun classification in Australian languages in general.

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.