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Books: Language Description: Donohue

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Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, Wulguru: a salvage study of a north-eastern Australian language from Townsville: Donohue
Message 1: Wulguru: a salvage study of a north-eastern Australian language from Townsville: Donohue
Date: 28-Nov-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Wulguru: a salvage study of a north-eastern Australian language from Townsville: Donohue


Title: Wulguru: a salvage study of a north-eastern Australian language
from Townsville Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 463. Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                http://www.lincom.eu

Author: Mark Donohue Paperback: ISBN: 978389586990 Pages: 70 Price: Europe EURO 38.00
Abstract:

Wulguru was a Pama-Nyungan language typical of the sort found on thenortheast coast of Australia; it ceased to be spoken before it was properlydocumented. Wulguru was spoken in the area around present day Townsville,and also on the islands extending out to Palm Island.

The sketch that is presented here has been assembled from the availabledata, based mainly on a journal kept by Charles Price, a resident ofTownsville in the late 19th century; the current work is as complete arecord as we are likely to have.

Wulguru had a vowel-length distinction; as a result of initial consonantloss, vowels could begin words; further, there were monosyllabic words.Wulguru marked syntactic relations by means of case marking; the ergativeshowed allomorphy based on syllable count as well as final consonantidentity. There were at least three different verbal conjugations, possiblyas many as five or six. Verbal agreement was optional, though this mightrepresent second position clitics. The only textual material consists of afew short phrases, as well as the transcription of some songs, and the maintext that we have for Wulguru, a translation of The Lord's Prayer. Itbecomes apparent (after back-translation) that it was not Price himself whoassembled the prayer translation, but probably a Wulguru speaker who makesa secret cry against the white invasion of the area.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Description                             Typology
Subject Language(s): Wulguru (qgu)
Written In: English (eng )

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