A Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka (Pacific Linguistics [PL] Book 648)

This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material. Preface and acknowledgements Table of contents List of abbreviations 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 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 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 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 References Author index Language index Subject index This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. In addition to the classic domains of linguistic analysts, this book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material. Book jacket Provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. Based on archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, this book deals with the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material.