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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The language and its speakers -- 1.1.Linguistic type -- 1.2.Names of the language and people -- 1.3.Dialects -- 1.4.Territory and neighbouring languages -- 1.4.1.Territory -- 1.4.2.Neighbouring languages and their classification -- 1.4.2.1.Proposed classificati...

Contents note continued: 1.6.3.Curses and expressions for abuse -- 1.7.Post-contact history -- 1.8.Studies on the Warrongo language -- 1.8.1.Introductory notes -- 1.8.2.Early studies on Warrongo -- 1.8.3.Modern studies on Warrongo -- 1.8.4.Speakers interviewed for the present study -- 1.8.4.1.Alf Pa...

Contents note continued: 2.1.3.2.6.Stop voicing (6): in consonant clusters -- 2.1.3.2.7.Stop voicing (7): concluding remarks -- 2.1.4.Allophones of vowels -- 2.1.4.1./a/ -- 2.1.4.2./u/ -- 2.1.4.3./i/ -- 2.1.4.4./i/ and /u/ -- 2.1.5.Problems with /j/ and /w/ -- 2.1.5.1./j/ -- 2.1.5.1.1.Introductory n...

Contents note continued: 2.2.5.4.Consonants and semivowels in words -- 2.2.6.Consonant clusters -- 2.2.6.1.Intra-root consonant clusters -- 2.2.6.2.Inter-morphemic consonant clusters -- 2.2.6.3.Comparison and analysis of intra-root and inter-morphemic consonant clusters -- 2.2.7.Syllables: onset and...

Contents note continued: 3.1.2.Additional comments on individual word classes -- 3.2.Noun morphology (1): case inflection -- 3.2.1.Case inflection of nouns and three demonstrative words -- 3.2.1.1.Regular nouns -- 3.2.1.2.Vowel-final proper and kin nouns -- 3.2.1.3.Irregular nouns -- 3.2.1.4.Ngani w...

Contents note continued: 3.7.Noun morphology (2): derivation -- 3.7.1.Noun-stem-forming suffixes -- 3.7.2.Reduplication -- 3.7.3.Compounding -- 3.8.Adverb morphology (2): derivation -- 3.8.1.Adverb-stem-forming suffixes -- 3.8.2.Reduplication -- 3.8.3.Compounding -- 3.9.Verb morphology (1): introduc...

Contents note continued: 3.10.13.Purposive-1 and purposive-2 -- 3.10.14.Purposive-3 -- 3.10.15.Purposive-4 -- 3.11.Verb morphology (2): derivation -- 3.11.1.Verb-stem-forming suffixes -- 3.11.1.1.-rra-(y)-mbi-L (̀song style?)' -- 3.11.1.2.-nda-Y r̀epeatedly', p̀lural actors' -- 3.11.1.3.-ya-L àll',...

Contents note continued: 4.3.2.Clause types (2): basic and derived clauses -- 4.3.3.Clause types (3): in terms of valency -- 4.3.3.1.Introductory notes -- 4.3.3.2.Three-place clauses -- 4.3.3.3.Two-place clauses -- 4.3.3.4.One-place clauses -- 4.4.Constituents of clauses -- 4.5.Types of phrases -- 4...

Contents note continued: 4.5.4.1.Verb phrases consisting of two verbs -- 4.5.4.2.Verb phrases consisting of a verb and a noun or adverb -- 4.6.Order of constituents -- 4.6.1.Constituent order in words -- 4.6.2.Constituent order in phrases -- 4.6.3.Constituent order in clauses -- 4.6.3.1.Introductory...

Contents note continued: 4.8.2.Combination of clauses -- 4.8.3.Coreference and syntactic ergativity -- 4.8.4.Coreferential deletion in purposive subordination -- 4.8.5.More on purposive subordination -- 4.9.Antipassive construction -- 4.9.1.Case frames and verbal morphology -- 4.9.2.Transitivity --...

Contents note continued: 4.9.9.Case frames and semantics -- 4.9.9.1.Semantic types of antipassive verbs -- 4.9.9.2.Case of the undergoer NP -- 4.9.9.2.1.Introductory notes -- 4.9.9.2.2.Animacy of the undergoer in terms of Silverstein's NP hierarchy -- 4.9.9.2.3.Affectedness of the undergoer in terms...

Contents note continued: 4.9.9.5.Case frames of three-place antipassives -- 4.9.9.6.Case of NPs for instrument, location, and destination -- 4.9.9.6.1.Case of NPs for instrument -- 4.9.9.6.2.Case of NPs for location -- 4.9.9.6.3.Case of NPs for destination -- 4.9.9.6.4.Case of NPs: discussion -- 4.9...

Contents note continued: 4.11.3.Vt-li-ZERO r̀eflexive' (AP, AC) -- 4.11.3.1.Vt-li-ZERO t̀rue reflexive' (A&O: d-S) (AP, AC) -- 4.11.3.2.Vt-li-ZERO ànticausative' (O: d-S) (AP, AC) -- 4.11.4.Vi-gali-ZERO and Noun-gali-ZERO m̀iddle' (AP) -- 4.11.5.Vi-li-ZERO, Vi-l-Vi-li-ZERO, Noun-li-ZERO and Adverb-...

Contents note continued: 4.12.9.More on the formation of reciprocal verbs -- 4.12.9.1.Morphological restrictions -- 4.12.9.2.Reciprocal verb based on a noun -- 4.12.9.3.Etymology -- 4.13.Iterative construction -- 4.13.1.Iterative verbs -- 4.13.2.Syntax -- 4.13.2.1.Intransitive-garra-Y -- 4.13.2.2.Tr...

Contents note continued: 4.14.2.4.5.Word order: topic (?) -- 4.14.2.5.Locative verbs with the causative meaning -- 4.14.3.Verbal instrumental construction: Vt-ri-L -- 4.14.3.1.Instrumental verbs -- 4.14.3.2.Case frames and valency -- 4.14.3.3.Use -- 4.14.3.3.1.Syntactic possibilities -- 4.14.3.3.2.U...

Contents note continued: 4.15.2.Participle-2 -nji -- 4.15.2.1.Introductory notes -- 4.15.2.2.Participle-2 used in a subordinate clause -- 4.15.2.3.Participle-2 used in a simple sentence -- 4.15.2.4.Participle-2 used in songs -- 4.15.3.Participle-3 -njirra -- 4.16.Relative clause -- 4.17.Apprehension...

Contents note continued: 4.20.1.Introductory notes -- 4.20.2.Possession cline -- 4.20.3.Genitive case -- 4.20.4.Dative, ablative-1, and comitative cases -- 4.20.5.Apposition of possessor/whole and possessee/part -- 4.20.5.1.Introductory notes -- 4.20.5.2.Apposition (1): accusative, ergative, dative,...