A Grammar of Papapana : : An Oceanic Language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / / Ellen Smith-Dennis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Smith-Dennis, Ellen,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 659
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXII, 532 p.)

This monograph is not only the first comprehensive grammar of Papapana (a previously undocumented and under-described endangered language) but the first full reference grammar of any Oceanic language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, despite this region displaying considerable linguistic innovation and language contact phenomena with numerous typologically significant features. This book describes Papapana on various levels, including phonology, morphology and syntax in noun phrases and the verb complex, and syntax at the clause- and sentence-level. Throughout the grammar, the described phenomena are related to the current research on typological and Oceanic linguistics. Typologically unusual features of Papapana include multiple reduplication, inverse-number marking in the noun phrase and postverbal subject-indexing. The book also describes the sociolinguistic and historical context within which Papapana is spoken and highlights linguistic changes resulting from language contact. The monograph fills an important gap in terms of grammatical descriptions of Bougainville Oceanic languages, and makes a significant contribution to the field of Oceanic linguistics, and to future comparative linguistic and typological research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Glossing conventions -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Language background and sociolinguistic context -- Chapter 3 Phonology -- Chapter 4 Nouns and noun phrase structure -- Chapter 5 Noun class, number and possession -- Chapter 6 Verbs and the verb complex -- Chapter 7 Tense, aspect, mode and negation -- Chapter 8 Obliques, adjuncts and clause-level adverbs -- Chapter 9 Clause types and structures -- Chapter 10 Complex sentences -- References -- Appendix 1 Pronominal paradigms -- Appendix 2 25 demonstrative scenes (Wilkins 1999) -- Index