A Grammar of Gaagudju

This grammar provides an overall description of Gaagudju, a now nearly extinct language of northern Australia.

Gaagudju differs from most previously described Australian languages in a number of ways.

It shows marked differences in the realizations of stressed and unstressed syllables.

It has complex systems of prefixation as well as suffixation.

There is a clear distinction between productive and unproductive morphology, with a large amount of the morphology being unproductive.

While word order is generally free, strictly ordered phrasal compounding structures are important.