A Grammar of Papapana : : An Oceanic Language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / / Ellen Smith-Dennis.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pacific Linguistics [PL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXII, 532 p.) |
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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