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Directory         1.     Ulrich Lueders , A grammar of Nakkara (Central Arnhem Land coast): Dixon (Ed), Eather Message 1: A grammar of Nakkara (Central Arnhem Land coast): Dixon (Ed), Eather Date: 23-Oct-2011 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: A grammar of Nakkara (Central Arnhem Land coast): Dixon (Ed), Eather E-mail this message to a friend Title: A grammar of Nakkara (Central Arnhem Land coast) Series Title: Outstanding grammars from Australia 07 Published: 2011 Publisher: Lincom GmbH                 http://www.lincom.eu Author: Bronwyn Eather Editor: RMW Dixon Paperback: ISBN: 9783862881536 Pages: 504 Price: Europe EURO 78.00 Abstract: Nakkara (now spelt Na-Kara) is a prefixing language of the non-Pama Nyungan variety spoken in and around the community of Maningrida in the Northern Territory of Australia. Like many coastal communities, the Na-Kara tribal area and language group seem always to have been quite small and Na- Kara is now a highly endangered language. Moderately polysynthetic, Na-Kara has a number of characteristic structural features that place it with other central and western Arnhem groupings. The phonology is relatively straightforward with five vowels; a series of short and long stop consonants; retroflex and alveolar pairs, a lamino-palatal distinction and a full set of nasal sounds. The morphology is rich and intricate springing from a pronoun system that distinguishes masculine and feminine gender across several number and person categories where an inclusive/exclusive distinction adds to the mix. Verbs carry these often complex pronominal prefixes as well as additional affixes for direction, realis/irrealis, tense and transitivity. Aspect is expressed by complex verbal predicates. Nouns are relatively unencumbered with affixes but share some of the load for locational specification. Demonstrative/deictic forms carry a quasi pronominal load often with three- way locational and referential distinctions. With a fairly modest lexicon, many forms in Na-Kara are idiomatic and descriptive, relying on compounding for semantic extension. 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