| ISBN |
9781614518990 |
| 9781614519003 |
| Author |
Verstraete, Jean-Christophe, 1976- (author) |
| Title |
A grammar and lexicon of Yintyingka / Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Bruce Rigsby. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Boston Berlin De Gruyter Mouton, [2015] |
| ©2015 |
| Description |
xiv, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Pacific linguistics 1448-8310 ; volume 648 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1.Introduction -- 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Location -- 1.2.Speakers and contact history -- 1.3.Sources -- 1.4.Organization -- 1.5.A sketch of Yintyingka -- 2.Sociocultural matrix -- 2.1.Classical social organization -- 2.2.Linguistic implications -- 2.3.Contemporary organization -- 3.Yintyingka sociolinguistics -- 3.1.Estates, clans and local groups -- 3.2.Languages -- 3.3.Patterns of multilingualism and language use -- 3.4.Contemporary situation -- 4.Earlier linguistic and ethnographic work -- 2.Sources -- 1.Introduction -- 2.The sources -- 2.1.Donald Thomson (1972) -- 2.2.James Cobon (1900) -- 2.3.Herbert Hale & Norman Tindale (1927) -- 2.4.Donald Thomson (1928--1929) -- 2.5.La Mont West Jr (1961, 1965) -- 2.6.David Thompson (1973) -- 2.7.Bruce Rigsby (1974, 1990) -- 3.Methods: Treatment of sources -- 4.Notes on speakers -- 4.1.Atyaku -- 4.2.Rosie Ahlers -- 4.3.Old Baldy and Noiemo -- 4.4.Bambi -- 4.5.Captain -- 4.6.Chako -- Contents note continued: 4.7.Peter Chippendale -- 4.8.Jinny Long -- 4.9.Maggie -- 4.10.Mungi -- 4.11.Ngarrku Tuympa -- 4.12.Noongorrli -- 4.13.Omi -- 4.14.George Rocky -- 4.15.Jack Shephard -- 4.16.Bobby Stewart -- 4.17.Tyamintyinyu -- 4.18.Yumpanamu -- 3.Phonology -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Phoneme inventory -- 2.1.Consonant inventory -- 2.2.Evidence for the consonant inventory -- 2.3.Vowel inventory -- 2.4.Evidence for the vowel inventory -- 3.Phonetics -- 3.1.Consonants -- 3.2.Vowels -- 4.Word structure and phonotactics -- 4.1.Stem-initial and stem-final positions -- 4.2.Stem-medial consonants -- 4.3.Vowels -- 5.Word stress -- 5.1.Prosodic evidence -- 5.2.Segmental evidence -- 5.3.Stress in phrases -- 6.Orthographies -- 6.1.Practical orthography -- 6.2.Donald Thomson's transcription conventions -- 6.2.1.Consonants -- 6.2.2.Vowels -- 6.2.3.Summary -- 4.Morphology -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Pronouns -- 2.1.Nominative forms -- 2.2.Non-nominative forms -- 2.3.Other forms -- 3.Nominals -- Contents note continued: 3.1.Case -- 3.2.Information status -- 3.3.Other nominal morphology -- 3.3.1.Semantically transparent morphemes -- 3.3.2.Semantically opaque morphemes -- 3.3.3.Reduplication -- 4.Verbs -- 4.1.Bound nominative pronouns -- 4.2.Tense-mood markers and bound accusative pronouns -- 4.2.1.Analysis -- 4.2.2.Distribution and meanings -- 4.3.Other verbal morphology -- 5.Syntax -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Noun phrase structure -- 2.1.Word-class-based analysis -- 2.2.Generic-specific constructions -- 2.3.Whole-part constructions -- 2.4.Functional analysis -- 2.5.Complex noun phrases -- 3.Basic clause structure -- 4.Case marking and transitivity -- 4.1.Transitivity -- 4.2.Case marking for core arguments -- 4.3.Case marking for adjuncts -- 5.Participant marking -- 6.Tense-aspect-mood and polarity marking -- 6.1.Polarity marking -- 6.2.Tense-aspect-mood marking -- 6.2.1.Tense -- 6.2.2.Aspect -- 6.2.3.Mood -- 7.Non-verbal predication -- 8.Complex sentences and discourse -- Contents note continued: 6.Yintyingka in a comparative perspective -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Phonology -- 2.1.Vowel Inventory and vowel harmony -- 2.1.1.Typology -- 2.1.2.History -- 2.2.Consonant inventory -- 2.2.1.Typology -- 2.2.2.History -- 2.3.Initial-dropping and initial-softening -- 2.3.1.Typology -- 2.3.2.History -- 2.4.Other aspects of phonotactics -- 2.4.1.Consonant clusters -- 2.4.2.Stem-final processes -- 3.Morphology -- 3.1.Pronouns -- 3.1.1.Typology -- 3.1.2.History -- 3.2.Nouns -- 3.3.Verbs -- 4.Genetic classification -- 7.Lexicon -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Yintyingka lexicon -- 3.English-Yintyingka finder list. |
| Summary |
"This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of central and eastern Cape York Peninsula, in North Queensland, Australia. The description is based on archival sources, recorded by anthropologists and linguists between 1900 and 1990, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. The language is no longer spoken, but it was associated with clans belonging to two distinct cultural blocs in the region...Yintyingka fills what has long been a blank space on the linguistic map of Cape York Peninsula, amongst languages that are better described, or at least much better know. To the north are Umpila (along the coast) and Kaanju (inland), two closely related dialects of a language that also includes Uutaalnganu and Kuuku Ya'u north of Umpila...To the west are Wik languages, like inland Wik Mungkan...and Wik Iiyanh...To the southwest are Pakanh...and a variety called Ayapathu...which is distinct from the language studied here"--Introduction. |
| Subjects |
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Languages |
| Extinct languages -- Queensland |
| Yindjibarndi language -- Grammar |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Languages |
| Pama-Nyungan languages -- Grammar |
| Extinct languages -- Australia -- Queensland |
| Queensland -- Languages |
| Australia -- Queensland -- Languages |
| Australia -- Languages |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Rigsby, B. (Bruce) (author) |
| Series |
Pacific linguistics v. 648. |
| Call number |
499.15 VER |
