Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian LanguageVolumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
Phonology and orthography | 11 |
Final and transitional | 17 |
Tense | 41 |
The transitivizer | 47 |
Adverbials of place and direction | 64 |
Taxonomy of things designated by nouns | 72 |
Other editions - View all
Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian Language Barry Alpher Limited preview - 2011 |
Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian Language Barry Alpher No preview available - 1991 |
Common terms and phrases
anhth animal athan awr nh barramundi bird brolga brother clause Clitic Cnt nP Contrast coolamon Dative dillybag Etymology fish human classification Ideophone inhqa kalkall kalpar Kalq kana kanpa kar+w karntl Kawn korr Kowanyama kowl koyrr kunq Kurta Larr Lerrn macropod mapuwl meat Minh morr mother Mythic NAdj NAdv ng'n ngalhth ngan ngarr Ngart ngawr ngerr ngerr-yap ngethn ngeyn nginh Ngolt ngorvm Ngoyo Ngul Ngul olowr nguwl nhilin Nholo Note noun orto oylt palal Paradigm parr+kin parr+kowl peqerr pinn pirirll plant Poss poyn Pronoun spear spearthrower stingray suffix sugarbag Thaml tharr thaw thel thurr Totem tree Umpila ungnh verb Vintr wallaby walnh wangary wanh wanl Warlpiri warr warrch warrchuwrr wothol wunan yamar yaml yarra Yir-Yoront yirr Yirrq yongn yorron
References to this book
Adjective Classes: A Cross-linguistic Typology R.M.W. Dixon,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald No preview available - 2006 |
Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity Stephen C. Levinson,David P. Wilkins Limited preview - 2006 |