A Grammar of Toqabaqita /

A Grammar of Toqabaqita / / Frantisek Lichtenberk.

Toqabaqita is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 13,000 people on the island of Malaita in the south-eastern Solomon Islands. This two-volume grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language, based on the author's field work. The grammar deals with the phonology, mor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Lichtenberk, Frantisek,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 42
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of tables, maps, and figures
  • Abbreviations and conventions
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Phonology
  • Chapter 3. Grammatical profile
  • Chapter 4. The verb phrase
  • Chapter 5. The particles in the verb complex
  • Chapter 6. The noun phrase
  • Chapter 7. The noun-phrase internal particle group
  • Chapter 8. Possessive and associative noun phrases
  • Chapter 9. Nominalizations and deverbal nouns
  • Chapter 10. The prepositional phrase
  • Chapter 11. Coordination of noun phrases and prepositional phrases. Apposition of noun phrases and prepositional phrases.
  • Chapter 12. Compounding
  • Chapter 13. The demonstratives and the demonstrative adverbs
  • Chapter 14. Constructions with inclusory pronominals
  • Backmatter
  • Volume 2
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations and conventions
  • Chapter 15. Tense and aspect
  • Chapter 16. The sequential subject markers
  • Chapter 17. Negation
  • Chapter 18. Mood
  • Chapter 19. Interrogatives
  • Chapter 20. Imperatives
  • Chapter 21. Low-individuation-of participants derivations
  • Chapter 22. Reciprocal and related situation types
  • Chapter 23. Self-contained situations
  • Chapter 24. Unrestricted choice
  • Chapter 25. Comparison of inequality
  • Chapter 26. Locational, existential, and possessive sentences
  • Chapter 27. Verbless sentences
  • Chapter 28. Coordination of clauses
  • Chapter 29. Complement clauses
  • Chapter 30. Relative clauses
  • Chapter 31. Conditional sentences
  • Chapter 32. Concessive clauses
  • Chapter 33. Reason clauses, purpose clauses, and purpose nominalizations
  • Chapter 34. Consequence clauses
  • Chapter 35. Temporal relations
  • Chapter 36. Deranked subordinate clauses
  • Chapter 37. Direct speech
  • Chapter 38. Topicalization
  • Chapter 39. Focusing
  • Chapter 40. Toqabaqita, Solomon Islands Pijin, and English
  • Backmatter

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