Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 12
Creators: name: Street, C. (Ed.)
name: Geytenbeek, H. (Ed.)
name: Glasgow, K. (Ed.)
name: Garner, M. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1980

description: A-58
description: Contents iii{Chester S. Street} 1REDUPLICATION IN MURINBATA. 0. Orthographic Symbols 1 0.1. Abbreviations 2 1. Introduction 3 2. The Nature of Reduplication in Various Languages 3 3. The Nature of Reduplication in Murinbata 4 4. Reduplication in Verbs 5 4.1. Plurality, Repetition, (Habitual Aspect) 5 4.1.1. Reduplication and Aspect 6 4.2. The Formation of Nouns 8 4.3. The Formation of Adjectives 8 5. Reduplication in Nouns 9 6. Reduplication in Adjectives 10 7. Phonological Conditioning of Reduplication in Verbs 10 7.1. Exceptions 13Appendix I - Paradigm of Incorporated Object Affixes 14Appendix II - List of Verb Roots that Reduplicate 15Appendix III - List of Verb Roots that do not Reduplicate 18Bibliography 20{Helen Geytenbeek} 23CONTINUOUS AND DISCONTINUOUS NOUN PHRASES IN NYANGUMARDA. 0. Preface 23 0.1. Abbreviations 24 0.2. Orthography 24 0.3. Introduction 24 1. Head - Modifier Phrases 25 1.1. Modifiers 25 1.1.1. Adjectives 25 1.1.2. Demonstratives 25 1.1.3. Possessives 26 1.1.4. Nouns and Pronouns 26 1.1.5. Numerals 26 1.2. Restrictions on Modifiers 21 1.3. Word Order 28 1.4. Case and Concord 29 1.5. The Head 29 2. Co-ordinate Phrases 30 3. Relator - Axis Phrases 30 4. Appositional Phrases 31 5. Discontinuity 32 6. Summary 34Bibliography 35{Kathleen Glasgow and Mark Garner} 37CLAUSE-LEVEL TAGMEMES OF BURARRA. 0. Introduction 37 0.1. Abbreviations and Symbols 38 1. Overview 40 1.1. Clause Types - Summary 40 1.2. Clause-Level Tagmemes 41 1.3. Interrupted Tagmemes 42 1.4. Repeated Tagmemes 43 1.5. Maximal and Minimal Clauses 44 1.6. Ordering of Tagmemes 45 2. Clause Types and their Predicate Tagmemes 46 2.1. Intransitive 46 2.2. Transitive 48 2.3. Intransitive Stative 49 2.4. Transitive Stative 51 2.5. Descriptive 52 3. Participant Tagmemes 54 3.1. Subject 54 3.2. Object 55 3.3. Benefactive 56 4. Lateral Tagmemes 57 4.1. Indirect Object 57 4.2. From 59 4.3. Location-Instrument 59 4.4. Time 62 4.5. Aspect 63 4.6. Manner 64 5. Peripheral Tagmemes 65 5.1. Mood 65 5.2. Indeterminate 66 5.3. Vocative 69 6. Varieties of Verb Form and their Functions 69 6.1. Non-Past Subjunctive 70 6.2. Non-Desiderative 71 6.3. Imperative 71 6.4. Non-Past Declarative 73 6.5. Past Declarative 73 6.6. Past Subjunctive 74 6.7. Negation 74 6.8. Repeated Action 75 7. Conclusion 76Appendix A - Outline of Burarra Phonology and Orthography 77Appendix B - Conjunctions 79Bibliography 81{Chester S. Street} 83THE RELATIONSHIP OF VERB AFFIXATION AND CLAUSE STRUCTURE IN MURINBATA. 0. Abbreviations 83 1. Introduction 84 1.1. Peripheral Tagmemes 85 1.2. Subject, Object and Indirect Object Tagmemes 86 1.3. Predicate 86 1.4. Verb Affixes 86 1.5. Clause Types 87 1.6. Reflexive Clauses 87 2. The Transitive Goal/Instrument Clause 88 3. The Transitive Source Clause 91 3.1. The Source Tagmeme 91 4. The Transitive Benefactive/Goal Clause 93 5. The Transitive Benefactive Source Clause 95 6. The Verbal Stative Clause 97 7. The Di-Transitive Clause 98 8. The Intransitive Clause 101 9. The Intransitive Source Clause 103 10. The Intransitive Benefactive/Goal Clause 104 11. Summary 106 12. Clause Modes 106 12.1. The Imperative Clause 106 12.2. The Subjunctive Clause 108 12.3. WH- Interrogative Clause 108 12.4. The Yes/No Interrogative Clause 110Appendix - Incorporated Body Parts 111Bibliography 113