agents), take accusative, as in: Here, R is a maker of reflexivity. Part-whole compounds Though part-whole relations are sometimes expressed using the genitive case as in (1) below, it is more common to mark both part and whole with the same case, placing the 'part' nominal immediately after its possessor nominal, as in (2). New Lardil While very few speakers of Lardil in its traditional form remain, Norvin Richards and Kenneth Hale both worked with some speakers of a "New Lardil" in the 1990s which displays significant morphological attrition compared to the Old variety. Previously minor sentence forms in which the object of a verb takes nominative case have become generalized, even in instances where the verb is in future tense (objects of future verbs historically inflected for futurity). One of a number of negation patterns has become generalized, and the augmented forms of monosyllabic verb roots reinterpreted as base forms. See also Language death Stolen generations Grammatical case References Sources Bowern, Claire and Erich Round. Lectures on Australian Aboriginal languages. Spring 2011. Yale University. Hale, Kenneth L. and D. Nash. 1997. Damin and Lardil Phonotactics. Klokeid, Terry J. 1976. Topics in Lardil Grammar. McKnight, D. 1999. People, Countries and the Rainbow Serpent. Ngakulmungan Kangka Leman and K.L. Hale. 1997. Lardil dictionary : a vocabulary of the language of the Lardil people, Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland: with English-Lardil finder list. Gununa, Qld, Mornington Shire Council. Richards, Norvin. Leerdil Yuujmen bana Yanangarr (Old and New Lardil). MIT, 1997. Round, Erich. Lecture on Kayardild and related languages. 4/7/2011, Yale University. Round, Erich R. 2011 (forthcoming). Word final phonology in Lardil: Implications of an expanded data set. Australian Journal of Linguistics. Further reading Dixon, R. M. W. 1980. The Languages of Australia. Evans, Nicholas (with Paul Memmott and Robin Horsman). 1990. Chapter 16: Travel and communication. In P. Memmott & R. Horsman, A changing culture. The Lardil Aborigines of Mornington Island. Social Sciences Press, Wentworth Falls, NSW. Hale, Kenneth L. 1966. Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian Languages WORD, 22:1–3, 318–324, Hale, Kenneth L. 1967. Some Productive Rules in Lardil (Mornington Island) Syntax, pp. 63–73 in Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 2, ed. by C.G. von Brandenstein, A. Capell, and K. Hale. Pacific Linguistics Series A, No. 11. Hale, Kenneth L. . 1973. Deep-Surface Canonical Disparities in Relation to Analysis and Change. Memmott, P., N. Evans and R. Robinsi Understanding Isolation