TY - CHAP
T1 - Stem forms and paradigm reshaping in Gunwinyguan
AU - Baker, Brett
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - In this chapter I address the internal subgrouping of the Gunwinyguan (GN) family, originally proposed by O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1996). The most recent and extensive argument for this family is Alpher, Evans, and Harvey (in press; henceforth AEH). AEH's primary evidence for the existence of this group comes from a shared set of finite verb paradigms. According to the authors, languages belong to this family (see 1.1) below can be shown to descend from a pGN verb inflection system which distinguished Past Punctual (PP), Past Continuous (PC), and NonPast (NP) tense forms, and had several conjugations. I take this family level grouping as a given in my discussion. ... My primary focus on what follows is on Ngalakgan and Rembarrnga. I show that there is evidence of systematic innovation in verb inflection morphology, and they may therefore be subgrouped together. I will call this subgroup 'Jala' (from the word for "mouth" in Rembarrnga and Ngalakgan).
AB - In this chapter I address the internal subgrouping of the Gunwinyguan (GN) family, originally proposed by O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1996). The most recent and extensive argument for this family is Alpher, Evans, and Harvey (in press; henceforth AEH). AEH's primary evidence for the existence of this group comes from a shared set of finite verb paradigms. According to the authors, languages belong to this family (see 1.1) below can be shown to descend from a pGN verb inflection system which distinguished Past Punctual (PP), Past Continuous (PC), and NonPast (NP) tense forms, and had several conjugations. I take this family level grouping as a given in my discussion. ... My primary focus on what follows is on Ngalakgan and Rembarrnga. I show that there is evidence of systematic innovation in verb inflection morphology, and they may therefore be subgrouped together. I will call this subgroup 'Jala' (from the word for "mouth" in Rembarrnga and Ngalakgan).
KW - Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
UR - http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rmvmCvs9zQcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA313
UR - http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an25288314
UR - http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20249
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9027247617
T3 - Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
SP - 313
EP - 340
BT - Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method
A2 - Bowern, Claire
A2 - Koch, Harold
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands
ER -