A grammar of Papuan Malay / Angela Kluge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kluge, Angela, 1960- author.

Series:

Studies in Diversity Linguistics ; 11.

Studies in Diversity Linguistics ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malay language--Dialects--Indonesia--Papua--Grammar.

Malay language.

Malay language--Dialects--Grammar.

Indonesia--Papua.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 735 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book presents an in-depth linguistic description of Papuan Malay, a non-standard variety of Malay. The language is spoken in coastal West Papua which covers the western part of the island of New Guinea. The study is based on sixteen hours of recordings of spontaneous narratives and conversations between Papuan Malay speakers, recorded in the Sarmi area on the northeast coast of West Papua. Papuan Malay is the language of wider communication and the first or second language for an ever-increasing number of people of the area. While Papuan Malay is not officially recognized and therefore not used in formal government or educational settings or for religious preaching, it is used in all other domains, including unofficial use in formal settings, and, to some extent, in the public media. After a general introduction to the language, its setting, and history, this grammar discusses the following topics, building up from smaller grammatical constituents to larger ones: phonology, word formation, noun and prepositional phrases, verbal and nonverbal clauses, non-declarative clauses, and conjunctions and constituent combining. Of special interest to linguists, typologists, and Malay specialists are the following in-depth analyses and descriptions: affixation and its productivity across domains of language choice, reduplication and its gesamtbedeutung, personal pronouns and their adnominal uses, demonstratives and locatives and their extended uses, and adnominal possessive relations and their non- canonical uses. This study provides a starting point for Papuan Malay language development efforts and a point of comparison for further studies on other Malay varieties.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Conventions for examples

Maps

1. Introduction

2. Phonology

3. Word-formation

4. Reduplication

5. Word classes

6. Personal pronouns

7. Demonstratives and locatives

8. Noun phrases

9. Adnominal possessive relations

10. Prepositions and the prepositional phrase

11. Verbal clauses

12. Nonverbal clauses

13. Negative, interrogative, and directive clauses

14. Conjunctions and constituent combining

Appendix A: Word lists

Appendix B: Texts

Appendix C: Overview of recorded corpus

Appendix D: OLAC resources for the languages of the Sarmi regency

Appendix E: Population totals for West Papua

Appendix F: Affixation

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781533457943

1533457948

OCLC:

1139843455

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.376415