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1、3SketchofaJaminjunggrammarofspaceEvaSchultze-Berndt3.1IntroductionTheaimofthispaperistodescribethesystemsofspatialorientationandthelinguisticresourcesthatareemployedindescriptionsofspatialrelationsandmotioneventsinJaminjung,anAustralianlanguage.ThemostnotablefeaturesofJaminjunginthisdomainare,first,
2、theexistenceoftwodistinctpredicativewordclasses,verbsandcoverbs.Theseshowacleardivisionoflabourwithrespecttotheexpressionbothofspatialrelationsandofthecomponentsofmotionevents.Inmotionexpressions,verbsencodeonlythefactofmotionandthe‘anchoring’ofthepath,whilebothmannerofmotionandotheraspectsofthepat
3、hareexpressedbycoverbs.ThismeansthatJaminjungfallsoutsidetheverb-framed/satellite-framedtypologyasitiscurrentlyconceived.Thesecondinterestingfeature,whichisnotableinthatJaminjungdiffersinthisrespectfromotherAustralianlanguageswhosesystemofspatialorienta-tionhasbeeninvestigatedinmoredetail,istheexis
4、tenceofadrainage-basedabsoluteframeofreference,ratherthanonebasedoncompassdirections.Indescriptionsofsmall-scalespatialarrangements,however,speakersprefertoemployexpressionsbasedonanintrinsicframeofreference,orexpressionsdescribinganoverallconfiguration.Thepaperisstructuredasfollows:Section3.2presen
5、tsabriefintroductiontothelanguageanditsspeakers.Section3.3,indescribingthegrammaticalandlexicalresourcesforspatialdescriptions,alsoservesasabriefintroductiontothegrammaticalpropertiesofthemajorwordclassesandtoothergrammat-icalfeaturesofJaminjung.InSection3.4,strategiesofencodingtopologicalrelations
6、arediscussed.Section3.5isdedicatedtothedescriptionofmotionevents.Section3.6dealswiththewaysthatbothadrainage-basedabsoluteframeofreferenceandanintrinsicframeofreferenceareemployedinspatialdescriptions.TheresultsaresummarizedinSection3.7.3.2ThelanguageanditsspeakersThelanguagenameJaminjungisusedhere
7、asacovertermforJaminjungandNgaliwurru,twocloselyrelatedlinguisticvarietiesspokenintheVictoriaRiver6364EvaSchultze-BerndtAreaofNorthernAustralia,intheborderregionbetweentheNorthernTerri-toryandWesternAustral
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