Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Abbreviations and conventions; 3. 1 Introduction; 4. 1.1 Language type; 5. 1.2 Territory and surrounding languages; 6. 1.3 Geographical variation; 7. 1.4 Gooniyandi culture and society; 8. 1.5 Speech styles; 9. 1.6 Contact history; 10. 1.7 Present language situation; 11. 1.8 Education and orthography; 12. 1.9 Other work on Gooniyandi; 13. 1.10 Data used in this investigation; 14. 2 Phonetics and Phonology; 15. 2.1 Phonemes and their realisations; 16. 2.2 Phonotactics; 17. 2.3 Syllabic structure of words and morphemes; 18. 2.4 Sandhi; 19. 2.5 Stress; 20. 3 The Word; 21. 3.1 Preliminary remarks; 22. 3.2 Parts-of-speech; 23. 3.3 Nominals; 24. 3.4 Adverbials; 25. 3.5 Particles; 26. 3.6 Pronominals; 27. 3.7 Postpositions; 28. 3.8 Enclitics; 29. 3.9 The verb phrase; 30. 3.10 Interjections; 31. 3.11 Sound effects; 32. 3.12 Word formation; 33. 3.13 Word complexes; 34. 4 The Phrase; 35. 4.1 The noun phrase; 36. 4.2 The postpositional phrase; 37. 4.3 Phrase complexes; 38. 5 The Clause; 39. 5.1 Introductory remarks; 40. 5.2 The clause as representation; 41. 5.3 Some aspects of the textual organisation of the Gooniyandi clause; 42. 5.4 Remarks on the interpersonal organisation of the clause; 43. 5.5 Non-finite clauses; 44. 5.6 Clause complexes; 45. 6 Topics In Semantics; 46. 6.1 Preliminary remarks; 47. 6.2 Logical modifiers; 48. 6.3 Enclitics; 49. 6.4 Clause modifying particles and adverbials; 50. 6.5 Verbal categories; 51. Appendix 1: Texts; 52. Text 1: Hunting and fishing on the Fitzroy River (Jack Bohemia); 53. Text 2: A myth about fire (Dave Lamey); 54. Text 3: Pumping water for a thirsty bull (Mervin Street); 55. Appendix 2: Vocabulary In Semantic Fields; 56. Appendix 3: List of Bound Morphemes; 57. Bibliography