A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi

• Preface | p. v
• Abbreviations and conventions | p. xvii
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Language type
• 1.2 Territory and surrounding languages
• 1.3 Geographical variation
• 1.4 Gooniyandi culture and society
• 1.5 Speech styles
• 1.6 Contact history
• 1.7 Present language situation
• 1.8 Education and orthography
• 1.9 Other work on Gooniyandi
• 1.10 Data used in this investigation
• 2 Phonetics and Phonology
• 2.1 Phonemes and their realisations
• 2.2 Phonotactics
• 2.3 Syllabic structure of words and morphemes
• 2.4 Sandhi
• 2.5 Stress
• 3 The Word
• 3.1 Preliminary remarks
• 3.2 Parts-of-speech
• 3.3 Nominals
• 3.4 Adverbials
• 3.5 Particles
• 3.6 Pronominals
• 3.7 Postpositions
• 3.8 Enclitics
• 3.9 The verb phrase
• 3.10 Interjections
• 3.11 Sound effects
• 3.12 Word formation
• 3.13 Word complexes
• 4 The Phrase
• 4.1 The noun phrase
• 4.2 The postpositional phrase
• 4.3 Phrase complexes
• 5 The Clause
• 5.1 Introductory remarks
• 5.2 The clause as representation
• 5.3 Some aspects of the textual organisation of the Gooniyandi clause
• 5.4 Remarks on the interpersonal organisation of the clause
• 5.5 Non-finite clauses
• 5.6 Clause complexes
• 6 Topics In Semantics
• 6.1 Preliminary remarks
• 6.2 Logical modifiers
• 6.3 Enclitics
• 6.4 Clause modifying particles and adverbials
• 6.5 Verbal categories
• Appendix 1: Texts
• Text 1: Hunting and fishing on the Fitzroy River (Jack Bohemia) | p. 573
• Text 2: A myth about fire (Dave Lamey) | p. 584
• Text 3: Pumping water for a thirsty bull (Mervin Street) | p. 587
• Appendix 2: Vocabulary In Semantic Fields | p. 591
• Appendix 3: List of Bound Morphemes | p. 603

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