William Mcgregor

Datos Biográficos

ID3692539
NOMBREWilliam Mcgregor
NOMBRESWilliam
APELLIDOMcgregor
FIRMAMCGREGOR W
AFILIACIONESThe University of Melbourne
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAS61
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1989
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
ÍNDICE H3

  • Death Practices in the North West of Australia

    Open AccessJack Bohemia, William B Mcgregor et al.ARTICLEAboriginal History Journal2011Referencias: 1

    All human societies have rites and taboos surrounding death. In mainstream Australian society, for instance, the dead are disposed of in rites of the funeral, either by burial or cremation. And there is a taboo -which usually lasts for some weeks or months -on mentioning the words 'dead', 'death', 'die' (and many others such as Trick the bucket', 'croak') to, or in the presence of close relatives of the dead; this taboo is particularly strong in …

  • Gooniyandi Stories of Early Contact with Whites

    Open AccessJack Bohemia, Bigfoot Jagarra et al.ARTICLEAboriginal History Journal2011Referencias: 1

    A Paper is presented on three Gooniyandi texts, identifying themes and the ways in which they are dealt with. These texts are compared with texts on similar themes from other Australian groups

  • Degenerate cases of body parts in Middle Dutch

    K Burridge, Hilary Chappell et al.CHAPTERGrammar of Inalienability1996

  • The expression of concepts of the personal domain and indivisibility in Indo-European languages

    Charles Bally, Hilary Chappell et al.CHAPTERGrammar of Inalienability1996

    L’expression des idées de sphère personnelle et de solidarité dans les langues indo-européennes by CHARLES BALLY (1926)

  • Prolegomena to a theory of inalienability

    William B Mcgregor, Hilary Chappell et al.CHAPTERGrammar of Inalienability1996

    International audience

  • Inalienability and the personal domain in Mandarin Chinese discourse

    Hilary Chappell, William McgregorCHAPTERGrammar of Inalienability1996

    International audience

  • The Grammar of Inalienability

    William B Mcgregor, Hilary Chappell et al.BOOKGrammar of Inalienability1996

    International audience

  • The grammar of reported speech and thought in Gooniyandi

    William B Mcgregor, William McgregorARTICLEAustralian Journal of Linguistics1994Citada por: 37Referencias: 9

    This paper investigates the grammar of reported speech and thought in Gooniyandi, a Bunuban language of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia. According to a traditional analysis, indirect speech reports would be embedded in the clause of speech; such an analysis cannot be maintained for Gooniyandi. Nor can recent proposals such as those of Foley and van Valin (1984) and Halliday (1985) that subordination or hypotaxis is involved. Instead, a …

  • Speaking in Black and White

    Open AccessWilliam B Mcgregor, William McgregorARTICLECultural Dynamics1993Referencias: 8

  • Clause types in Gooniyandi

    Open AccessWilliam B Mcgregor, William McgregorARTICLELanguage Sciences1992

  • A massacre on Christmas Creek station

    Jack Bohemia, William B Mcgregor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Australian Studies1992Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    (1992). A massacre on Christmas Creek station. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, No. 33, pp. 26-40

  • A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi

    Open AccessWilliam Croft, William McgregorARTICLELanguage1992Citada por: 6

    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. To this end, the theoretical framework of syst…

  • The semantics of ergative marking in Gooniyandi

    Open AccessWilliam B Mcgregor, William McgregorARTICLELinguistics1992Citada por: 16

  • Photographs of aborigines and police

    William B Mcgregor, William McgregorARTICLESocial Semiotics1991Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

  • A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi

    William B Mcgregor, William McgregorBOOKA functional grammar of Gooniyandi1990

    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. To this end, the theoretical framework of syst…

  • Alienability, Inalienability and Nominal Classification

    Open AccessHilary Chappell, William B Mcgregor et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1989

    Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 24-36