A Grammar Of Bilinarra —— An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory

----- 巴林那语文法：一种澳大利亚北领地的土著语言

ISBN: 9781614512684 出版年：2013 页码：558 Nordlinger, Rachel Meakins, Felicity De Gruyter Mouton

This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered language with only one speaker remaining in 2012 and no child learners. The materials on which this grammatical description is based were collected by the authors over a 20 year period from the last first-language speakers of the language, most of whom have since passed away. Bilinarra is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup of Pama-Nyungan which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa family, which also includes Warlpiri. It is non-configurational, with nominals commonly omitted, arguments cross-referenced by pronominal clitics and word order grammatically free and largely determined by information structure.