Grammar 1990

This volume sets out to provide a comprehensive description of the grammar of Gooniyandi, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the southern-central Kimberley region of Western Australia. It covers phonetics and phonology, word phrase and clause structure, and the semantics of closed-class grammatical items. The major focus is, however, on meaning: how do Gooniyandi speakers mean with and in their language.

Flexible - the material can be used in any order, depending on students' needs. Clearly organised - the Contents list, internal cross-referencing and comprehensive Index helps students select the areas of study required.

Afrikaans has been one of the two official languages of the Republic of South Africa since 1925 when an act of parliament replaced Dutch with Afrikaans. It is the mother tongue of at least five million South Africans as well as of some tens of thousands of Namibians. This number includes approximately two and a half million whites, so-called Afrikaners, who were formerly commonly called Boers; the rest of the white population, about one and a half million, speak English as their mother tongue.

This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field.