A grammar of Papuan Malay /

A grammar of Papuan Malay / / Angela Kluge.

This book presents an in-depth linguistic description of Papuan Malay, a non-standard variety of Malay. The language is spoken in coastal West Papua which covers the western part of the island of New Guinea. The study is based on sixteen hours of recordings of spontaneous narratives and conversation...

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Superior document:Studies in diversity linguistics
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Kluge, Angela,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : Language Science Press,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in diversity linguistics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (735 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Conventions for examples
  • Maps
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Phonology
  • 3. Word-formation
  • 4. Reduplication
  • 5. Word classes
  • 6. Personal pronouns
  • 7. Demonstratives and locatives
  • 8. Noun phrases
  • 9. Adnominal possessive relations
  • 10. Prepositions and the prepositional phrase
  • 11. Verbal clauses
  • 12. Nonverbal clauses
  • 13. Negative, interrogative, and directive clauses
  • 14. Conjunctions and constituent combining
  • Appendix A: Word lists
  • Appendix B: Texts
  • Appendix C: Overview of recorded corpus
  • Appendix D: OLAC resources for the languages of the Sarmi regency
  • Appendix E: Population totals for West Papua
  • Appendix F: Affixation
  • References.

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