Syntactic and Semantic Domains

 

The following semantic and syntactic domains have been used to classify the Garawa data:

• Adjectives

•  Nouns - human 

• Nouns - kin

 

Nouns - body

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• Nouns - animals

•  Nouns - birds

•  Nouns - insects etc

•  Nouns - plants

•  Nouns - material culture

•  Nouns - physical environment - land etc

•  Nouns - physical environment - fire

•  Nouns - physical environment - water

•  Nouns - physical environment - sky

•  Numbers

•  Quantifiers

•  Question and Answer Words

•  Pronouns

•  Demonstrative Pronouns

•  Verbs and Sentences

•  Words of Time

•  Words of Space

•  Compass Points