Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Martuthunira (vma) Alternative Names  Martuyhunira Family/Group  Australian, Pama-Nyungan Area  Australia and New Guinea General Data  • Spoken in Western Australia, northwest coast southwest of Dampier and inland • nearly extinct Typological Information  • dependent marking • highly analytic agglutinating structure • strongly suffixing • nominative - accusative • SVO • There are no clear formal criteria for a distinction between adjectives and nouns and often it is difficult to make discrete classifications based on semantic/functional criteria. (Dench 1995:51) Reduplication Form-Function  • Full: Disyllabic root, vowel final • Full: Disyllabic root, consonant final • Full: Trisyllabic root • Full: Lenition • Full: Trisyllabic root without lenition Relationship Form-Function  various forms - one function Reduplication System  • Full reduplication only • Full reduplication of lexeme root • No productive verbal reduplication • Most of the reduplicated forms seem to be lexicalized. • Thus the reduplication function cannot be clearly evaluated. Productivity  Reduplication is not a particularly productive morphological device in Martuthunira. (Dench, 1995:34) Forms  Select Valueroot   Functions  Select Valuelexical enrichment pluralization Patterns  Select Valuefull Semantics  Select Valueother plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — other 0 — verb other — other   All Examples  ⊟ References Dench, Alan 1995. Martuthunira: A language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Australian National University: Pacific Linguistics C-125     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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