Woleaian Reference Grammar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sohn, Ho-min.

Series:

PALI Language Texts--Micronesia Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woleaian language--Grammar.

Woleaian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1975.

Summary:

Ho-Min Sohn is professor emeritus of Korean language and linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Contents:

Intro

Woleaian Reference Grammar

Contents

Preface

Introduction

0.1 WOLEAI ATOLL

0.2 FOREIGN INFLUENCE

0.3 THE WOLEAIAN LANGUAGE

0.4 DIALECTS

0.5 PRESENT WORK

1 Speech Sounds

1.1 GRAMMAR AND SPEECH SOUNDS

1.2 SPEECH ORGANS

1.3 CRITERIA OF SOUND CLASSIFICATION

1.4 WOLEAIAN CONSONANTS

1.4.1 Simple Consonants

1.4.2 Double Consonants

1.5 WOLEAIAN VOWELS

1.5.1 Simple Vowels

1.5.2 Double Vowels

1.5.3 Word-final Vowels

Note to Linguists

1.6 SEMI-VOWELS w AND y

1.7 SOUND ALTERNATIONS

1.7.1 Base forms, Sound Environment and Alternation

1.7.2 Final Vowel Alternations

1.7.3 Vowel Lengthening

1.7.4 a between High Vowels

1.7.5 a before a Low Vowel

1.7.6 Semivowel Alternations

1.8 SOUND COMBINATIONS

1.9 PITCHES AND INTONATION CONTOURS

2 Orthography

2.1 SPEECH AND WRITING

2.2 SOUND-LETTER CORRESPONDENCE

2.3 THE ALPHABET

2.4 SPELLING CONVENTIONS

3 Word Classification

3.1 INTRODUCTION

3.2 THE WORD

3.3 PARTS OF SPEECH

3.4 FULL WORDS AND PARTICLES

3.5 NOUNS

3.5.1 Subclassification

3.5.2 Numeral Classifiers

3.5.3 Enumerative Counters

3.5.4 Possessive Classifiers

3.5.5 Locational Nouns

3.5.6 Inalienable Nouns

3.5.7 Proper Nouns

3.5.8 Common Nouns

3.6 PRONOUNS

3.6.1 Pronominal Function

3.6.1 Personal Pronouns

3.6.3 Question Pronouns

3.6.4 The Defective Pronouns i- and mel-.

3.6.5 The Locative Pronoun iyang

3.7 VERBS

3.7.1 Definition and Classification

3.7.2 Intransitive Verbs

3.7.3 Neutral Verbs

3.7.4 Transitive Verbs

3.8 NUMERALS

3.9 DEMONSTRATIVES

3.10 ASPECTS

3.11 ADVERBS

3.12 DIRECTIONALS

3.13 SUBJECTIVES

3.14 PREPOSITIONS

3.15 CONJUNCTIONS

4 Word Formation

4.1 MECHANISMS OF WORD FORMATION.

4.1.1 Stem, Derivation and Inflection

4.1.2 Compounding, Affixation, and Reduplication

4.1.3 Nature of Complex Stems

4.2 INFLECTIONAL PARADIGMS OF WOLEAIAN

4.2.1 Possessive Suffixes

4.2.2 Object Suffixes

4.2.3 Progressive Action

4.2.4 Plural Marking for Nouns

4.3 NOUN FORMATION

4.3.1 Nouns of Complex Stem

4.3.2 Derivative Nouns

4.4 VERB FORMATION

4.4.1 Intransitive Verbs

4.4.2 Neutral Verbs

4.4.3 Transitive Verbs

4.5 FORMAL RELATIONS AMONG VERBS

4.5.1 Simple-stem Transitive Verbs and Related Words

4.5.2 Thematic-stem Transitive Verbs and Related Words

4.5.3 Causative Transitive Verbs and Related Words

4.5.4 Possessive Transitive Verbs and Related Words

5 Sentence Patterns

5.1 MAJOR AND MINOR SENTENCES

5.1.1 Definition

5.1.2 Simple and Complex Major Sentences

5.1.3 Minor Sentences

5.1.4 Grammatical Functions

5.2 EQUATIONAL AND PREDICATIVE SENTENCES

5.2.1 Criteria of Distinction

5.2.2 Equational Sentences

5.2.3 Predicative Sentences and the Function of Subjectives

5.3 STATEMENT, QUESTION, COMMAND, EMPHASIS, TOPIC, AND EXCLAMATION

5.3.1 Statement and Question

5.3.2 Command

5.3.3 Emphasis and Topic

5.3.4 Exclamation

6 Noun Phrases

6.1 FUNCTION AND KIND

6.2 INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF SIMPLE NOUN PHRASES

6.3 COMPLEX NOUN PHRASES

6.4 NOMINAL PARTICLES

6.5 BARE-NOMINAL CONSTRUCTIONS

6.6 ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS

6.7 DEMONSTRATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS

6.7.1 Nature and Function of Demonstratives

6.7.2 Spatial, Temporal, and Mental Reference

6.7.3 Demonstrative Compounds

6.7.4 Relation between Demonstrative and Other Constructions

6.8 ATTRIBUTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS

6.8.1 Structure

6.8.2 Alienable and Inalienable Possession

6.8.3 Meanings of Attributive Relations

6.9 NUMERAL CONSTRUCTIONS

6.9.1 Structure.

6.9.2 Numeral Classification

6.9.3 Ordinal Expressions

7 Verb Phrases

7.1 INTERNAL STRUCTURE

7.2 USES OF ASPECTS

7.2.1 Aspectual Phenomena and Tense

7.2.2 Positive Aspects be, bel, sa

7.2.3 Negative Aspects ta, tai, taai, teit, tewai, tewaai, tewait, te

7.3 USES OF ADVERBS

7.3.1 Subclasses of Verbal Adverbs

7.3.2 Pre-verb Adverbs

7.3.3 Post-verb Adverbs (non-particle)

7.3.4 Post-verb Adverbs (particle)

7.4 DIRECTIONALS

7.4.1 Meanings of Directionals

7.4.2 Uses of Directionals

7.5 VERB CONSTRUCTIONS

7.5.1 Introduction

7.5.2 Intransitive Constructions

7.5.3 Neutral Constructions

7.5.4 Transitive Constructions

7.5.5 Causative Constructions

7.5.6 Nominal-type Constructions

8 Adjuncts

8.1 INTRODUCTION

8.2 TIME WORD EXPRESSIONS

8.3 LOCATIVE EXPRESSIONS

8.3.1 Structure

8.3.2 Simple Locative Constructions

8.3.3 Locational Noun Constructions

8.3.4 The Locative Pronoun iyang

8.4 be CONSTRUCTIONS

8.5 VERBAL PREPOSITIONS

9 Complex Sentences

9.1 INTRODUCTION

9.2 RELATIVE CLAUSE FORMATION

9.2.1 Structure of Relative Constructions

9.2.2 Relational Demonstratives and le

9.2.3 Dual Function of the Antecedent

9.2.4 Multiple Relative Constructions

9.3 CONJUNCTIVE SENTENCE FORMATION

9.4 FUNCTIONAL CLAUSE FORMATION

9.5 NOMINAL CLAUSE FORMATION.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8248-8224-5

0-8248-8225-3

OCLC:

1535400520