The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland
Description:... Introduction, Grammar & Phonology sections superseded by greatly revised & enlarged account in authors 1972 book of same title (Cambridge U.P.); Semantics (pp.230-433) gives detailed account of lexical correspondences between everyday vocabulary & mother-in-law or avoidance vocabulary; theoretical discussion of the general form of a semantic description, combining the componential & definitional approaches; detailed semantic descriptions of individual verbs, adverbals, adjectives, time words & nouns; note on procedure followed in preparing grammatical & semantic description (omitted from 1972 published revision)
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