A Grammar of Kilmeri / Claudia Gerstner-Link.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerstner-Link, Claudia, author.

Series:

Pacific linguistics ; 654.

Pacific Linguistics [PL] ; 654

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Papuan languages--Grammar.

Papuan languages.

Papua New Guinea--Languages.

Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 978 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. The Mouton Pacific Linguistics series represents a continuation of this publishing venture under the same Editorial Board. The Pacific Linguistics series presents linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, and other materials concerned with languages of this region. The authors and editors of Pacific Linguistics publications are drawn from a wide range of institutions around the world, and its publications are refereed by international scholars with relevant expertise. Pacific Linguistics has built a reputation as the most authoritative publisher of works on the languages of the Pacific and neighbouring areas, read by scholars with an interest in the region as well as by linguists with interests in language typology, sociolinguistics, language contact and the reconstruction of linguistic change and culture history. Pacific Linguistics is proud to act as a vehicle for the dissemination of knowledge about the languages of the Pacific and the Pacific Rim, many of which are little known, and to bring them to the attention of scholars around the world, as well as providing local communities with published language material, at a time when many minority languages are under threat.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables

Content Online Supplement

Acknowledgements / Gerstner-Link, Claudia

Preface

Abbreviations and glossing conventions

Map of the Border languages

1. The Kilmeri language and its speakers

2. Phonology

3. Word classes

4. Clause structure and information structure

5. Noun phrase structure and nominal morphology

6. Verbal TAM morphology

7. Grammatical relations

8. Complex sentences and discourse coherence

9. Syntax and functions of serial verb constructions

10. Eventhood in serial verb constructions

11. Interrogation

12. Negation

13. Lexical Semantics

14. Orientation in space: Topological relations and frames of reference

15. Deixis

16. Motion

17. Orientation in time

Bibliography

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 959-971) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-5015-0666-8

1-5015-0676-5

OCLC:

1056493450