Review of A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-Comparative Notes on Tangkic

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Newman, John

• This excellent grammar provides everything (and more!) which one has come to expect of grammars in the Mouton Grammar Library series: maps, a 546-page grammar, 60 pages of transcribed texts, a 164-page Kayardild-English dictionary with illustrations, photographs of language consultants, author index, language index, and subject index. Even for this series, however, A Grammar of Kayardild provides an extremely rich account of the language. It goes well beyond the requirements of a descriptive grammar in its detailed discussions of supposed prehistory of the language and the language group (Tangkic). As explained by the author, the Grammar core of the book derives from a 1985 A.N.U. dissertation. Additional textual and lexical material were collected after that and incorporated into the exemplary Texts and Dictionary sections of the present book.

• Date created

  2000

• Subjects / Keywords

  • A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-Comparative Notes on Tangkic, by Nicholas D. Evans
  • Book reviews

• Type of Item

  Review

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R35Q4RM7Q

• License

  © 2000 John Newman. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.