{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-gaagudju-von-mark-harvey","title":"A Grammar of Gaagudju","description":"\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003eGaagudju is a previously undescribed and now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. This grammar provides an overall description of the language. Australian languages generally show a high degree of structural similarity to one another. Gaagudju conforms to some of the common Australian patterns, yet diverges significantly from others. Thus while it has a standard Australian phonological inventory, its prosodic systems differ from those of most Australian languages, with stressed and unstressed syllables showing marked differences in realisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                 \n                \n                \u003cp\u003eLike many northern languages, it has complex systems of both prefixation and suffixation to nominals and verbs. Prefixation provides information about nominal classification (4 classes), mood, and pronominal cross-reference (Subjects, Objects, and Indirect Objects). Suffixation provides information about case, tense, and aspect. As in many languages, there is a clear distinction between productive and unproductive morphology. Gaagudju differs from most Australian languages in that a considerable amount of its morphology is unproductive, showing complex and irregular allomorphic variation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                 \n                \n                \u003cp\u003eGaagudju is like most Australian languages in that it may be described as a free word order language. However, word order is not totally free and strictly ordered phrasal compounding structures are significant (e.g. in the formation of denominal verbs).\u003c\/p\u003e\n                            \n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783110172485\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783110172485","offer_id":51067911174,"sku":"9783110172485","price":209.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/6fbb813a-b067-4e65-b850-5eefa395be73.jpg?v=1779338031","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/a-grammar-of-gaagudju-von-mark-harvey","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}