A grammar of Komnzo / Christian Döhler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Döhler, Christian, author.

Series:

Studies in diversity linguistics.

Studies in diversity linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Papua New Guinea--Language and languages.

Papua New Guinea.

Genre:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Berlin Language Science Press 2019

Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo provides many fields of future research, but the most interesting aspect of its structure lies in the verb morphology, to which the two largest chapters of the grammar are dedicated. Komnzo verbs may index up to two arguments showing agreement in person, number and gender. Verbs encode 18 TAM categories, valency, directionality and deictic status. Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories that verbs may express, but also in the way these are encoded.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Preliminaries

Chapter 2: Phonology

Chapter 3: Word classes

Chapter 4: Nominal morphology

Chapter 5: Verb morphology

Chapter 6: Tense, aspect and mood

Chapter 7: Syntax of the noun phrase

Chapter 8: Clausal syntax

Chapter 9: Complex syntax

Chapter 10: Information structure

Chapter 11: Aspects of the lexicon

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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