VCLVU186
Expand vocabulary and understand and use a range of vocabulary sets and grammatical structures that are available in the language
Elaborations
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understanding case and case marking on nouns, pronouns and adjectives
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explaining how verbs can be derived from nouns and vice versa, comparing with similar processes in English and other known languages
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composing and varying messages according to the available resources of the language, such as:
- suffixes, including ‘having’, ‘for want of’, ‘similar to’, ‘like’
- verbless sentences, for example, equative, descriptive, possessive
- verb categories, including intransitive, transitive, causative, inchoative, reflexive–reciprocal
- verb aspect, including continuous, transitory, perfective, imperfective
- verb-stem morphology, including compound verbs, reduplicated verbs, habitual/characteristic, derivation (nouns into verbs)
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expressing time, manner, attitude and place, according to the available language resources, such as:
- elaborations of past tense
- temporal expressions, for example, ‘beforehand’, ‘afterwards’, ‘too late’, ‘originally’
- expressions of frequency, immediacy and duration, for example, ‘persistently’, ‘at once’, ‘a few times’, ‘for a while’
- attitudinal words, particles and interjections, for example, terms expressing endearment, embarrassment, shame or pity
- locational cases as used in locative phrases, and extensions of these, for example, expressing origin or causation
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structuring and linking clauses, focusing on issues of agreement with transitive and intransitive verbs, using verb-linking devices, for example, serialisation and embedding
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discussing lexical and grammatical relationships between the language and other languages of the region, for example, common words and structures
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discussing grammatical and lexical contrasts between the language and English/ other known languages, for example, the figurative use of language, vocabulary associated with specialised domains
VCLVU186 | Languages | Victorian Aboriginal Languages | Levels 7 to 10 | Understanding | Systems of language
