The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland write by R. M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 1972-12-14. The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they lived in harmony with each other and with their environment. Over one hundred years ago many of them were shot and poisoned by European invaders. Those allowed to survive have been barely tolerated tenants on their own lands, and have had their beliefs, habits and language help up to ridicule and scorn. In the last decade they have seen their remaining forests taken and cleared by an American company, with the destruction of sites whose remembered antiquity is many thousands of years older than the furthest event in the shallow history of their desecrators. The survivors of the three tribes have stood up to these diversities with dignity and humour. They continue to look forward to the day when they may again be allowed to live in peaceful possession of some of their own lands, and may be accorded a respect that they have been denied, but which they have been forcibly made to accord to others.
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland write by Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon. This book was released on 1972. The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Grammar of Yidin
A Grammar of Yidin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Yidin write by R. M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 1977-10-06. A Grammar of Yidin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidin, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a 'mixed ergative' type that cannot easily be accommodated in terms of standard syntactic theory.
Young People's Dyirbal
Young People's Dyirbal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Young People's Dyirbal write by Annette Schmidt. This book was released on 2009-04-02. Young People's Dyirbal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1972 when R. M. W. Dixon's classic grammar, The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland, was published, under thirty speakers of the 'traditional' language remained. Now only some of their children and grandchildren use the language; these younger people speak a simplified version. In this impressive empirical survey, Annette Schmidt analyses the changes that have taken place in the Dyirbal spoken by that last generation of its speakers at the levels of phonology, morphology, syntax, the lexicon and semantics. She also provides a detailed account of the socio-linguistic setting of the community and the attitudes towards Dyirbal among younger speakers, their elders and English speakers.
Dyirbal Song Poetry : the Oral Literature of an Australian Rainforest People
Dyirbal Song Poetry : the Oral Literature of an Australian Rainforest People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dyirbal Song Poetry : the Oral Literature of an Australian Rainforest People write by Robert M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 1996. Dyirbal Song Poetry : the Oral Literature of an Australian Rainforest People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Words with interlinear glosses of 124 songs in Girramay, Jirrbal, Gulngay, Jirru, Mamu, some with musical transcriptions; linguistic and musical analysis of five song styles - Gama and Marrga styles performed at corroborees and lovesong styles Jangala, Burran and Gaynyil; notes on vocabulary, grammar and phonology; brief history of Dyirbal people and effects of contacts with Europeans after 1864 when Cardwell established; survival of Murray Upper community.
