Koromu (Kesawai) : grammar and information structure of a New Guinea language / Carol Priestley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Priestley, Carol, author.

Series:

Pacific linguistics ; 658.

Pacific linguistics, 1448-8310 ; volume 658

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Papua New Guinea--Languages.

Papua New Guinea.

Language and languages.

Indonesia--Papua.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 527 pages : 17 color photographs, 4 color maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Summary:

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 on information structure. Geographic, linguistic, social and historical setting are described as well as phonology and morphophonology. The book examines the morphosyntactic structures of the language, covering basic clause structure, word classes, phrase structures and structures of spatial reference, verbal morphology, serial verb constructions, experiencer object constructions and the various constructions of clause combining (clause chaining, complement clauses, adverbial and relative clauses). Chapters also deal with noun phrase (non)realisation and morphological signaling of prominence and show how links and tails are encoded grammatically. Appendices contain texts and a wordlist.

Notes:

Based on thesis (doctoral)--Australian National University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-514) and indexes.

Other Format:

PDF

ePub

ISBN:

9781501517099

1501517090

OCLC:

1128828479

Publisher Number:

9781501517099