A grammar of Atong / / by Seino van Breugel.

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Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 5.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (700 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Atong language and its speakers
  • Phonology
  • Word classes: an overview
  • Verbs and verb/nouns
  • Adjectives
  • Nouns, the noun phrase and the nominal clump
  • Kinship terms
  • Deictic words
  • Interrogatives
  • Indefinite preforms
  • The quantifier phrase, numerals and other quantifiers
  • Classifiers
  • Postpositions
  • Discourse connectives
  • Other word classes
  • Sub-class-changing derivation
  • Phrasal enclitics
  • Semantic-role marking
  • Pragmatic-role and specificity enclitics
  • The predicate
  • Derivational suffixes
  • Predicate enclitics
  • The clause, clause types and illocutionary force
  • The factitive enclitic =wa , subordination and nominalization
  • Goal-marked predicates
  • Temporal-location and conditional clauses
  • Concomitant-action clauses
  • Adverbial and sequential clauses.