Fifteen newly translated stories from the Aboriginal elders of Central Australia. Illustrated with Warlpiri art and maps of the regions where the stories were collected.
This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia). The opening chapters develop a novel theoretical orientation ...
Fifteen newly translated stories from the Aboriginal elders of Central Australia. Illustrated with Warlpiri art and maps of the regions where the stories were collected.
In 1984, senior Warlpiri men painted thirty doors of the local primary school to give their children a record of the Yuendumu 'Dreamings'. Attractively presented and containing full colour plates, Yuendumu Doors tells the stories associated with each door, and explains the Western Desert painting style.
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