The Tiwi Language: Grammar, Myths and Dictionary of the Tiwi Language Spoken on Melville and Bathurst Islands, Northern Australia, Issue 21

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Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1974 - Foreign Language Study - 170 pages
Grammar of Tiwi; introduction of the language, its location and speakers; phonology; morphophonology; morphology syntax; myths in the Tiwi language with interlinear glosses and free translation; Tiwi-English and English-Tiwi dictionary, thesaurus.

Contents

Acknowledgments
5
The description
8
chapter three
22
chapter four
51
Syntax
58
Sentence joining and embedding
69
Introduction
79
The first fire stick
100
Hunting and gathering II
106
Introduction
117
EnglishTiwi
141
Thesaurus
159
Bibliography
169
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Bibliographic information

TitleThe Tiwi Language: Grammar, Myths and Dictionary of the Tiwi Language Spoken on Melville and Bathurst Islands, Northern Australia, Issue 21
(Australian Aboriginal studies. no. 55. Linguistic series. no. 21.)
Issue 55 of Australian aboriginal studies, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Issue 21 of Linguistic series, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Issue 21 of RECALL linguistic series
The Tiwi Language: Grammar, Myths and Dictionary of the Tiwi Language Spoken on Melville and Bathurst Islands, Northern Australia, C. R. Osborne
AuthorC. R. Osborne
Editionillustrated
PublisherAustralian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1974
Original fromIndiana University
Digitized11 Jun 2009
ISBN0855750375, 9780855750374
Length170 pages
Subjects › 

Foreign Language Study / Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous
Social Science / Indigenous Studies
  
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