Koromu (Kesawai) : : Grammar and Information Structure of a New Guinea Language / / Carol Priestley.
This book is a grammatical description of Koromu (or Kesawai), an endangered and previously undescribed language in Papua New Guinea's Ramu Valley. Koromu belongs to the Madang subgroup of the putative Trans New Guinea family. The grammar covers the structures of the language, with an emphasis...
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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, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pacific Linguistics [PL] ,
658 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXVI, 528 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- List of Photos
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Abbreviations for sources (see Appendix 1 for more details)
- 1 Introduction: Linguistic, sociolinguistic, ethnographic and historical contexts
- 2 Phonology and morphophonology
- 3 Basic clause structure
- 4 Word classes
- 5 Noun phrases
- 6 Possessive nominal constructions
- 7 Postpositional phrases
- 8 Spatial reference
- 9 Verb morphology
- 10 Complex verbal predicates
- 11 Impersonal experiencer object constructions
- 12 Basic clause combining
- 13 Noun phrase realization, omission and prominence
- 14 Ground – links and tails
- Appendices
- References
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index