A grammar of Madurese / by William D. Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, William D., 1954-2017.

Series:

Mouton grammar library ; 50.

Mouton grammar library ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Madurese language--Grammar.

Madurese language.

Malayan languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (602 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14 million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese. There is no existing comprehensive descriptive grammar of the language, with existing studies being either sketches of the whole grammar, or detailed descriptions of phonology and morphology or some particular topics within these components of the grammar. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of this grammar, in particular (

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Phonology

Chapter 3. Lexical categories

Chapter 4. Morphology

Chapter 5. Reduplication

Chapter 6. Clause types

Chapter 7. Nominals and noun phrases

Chapter 8. Prepositions and prepositional phrases

Chapter 9. Verb phrases and verbal marking

Chapter 10. Modifications to argument structure

Chapter 11. Complex sentences

Chapter 12. Adverbs and adverbial clauses

Chapter 13. Anaphora

Chapter 14. Questions

Chapter 15. Speech levels

Chapter 16. Texts

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612784040

9781282784048

1282784048

9783110224443

3110224445

OCLC:

665843209