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A Grammar of Kilmeri.

By: Gerstner-Link, ClaudiaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Linguistics PL SerPublication details: Boston De Gruyter, Inc., 2018Description: 1 online resource (1010 pages)ISBN: 9781501506765; 1501506765; 1501515373; 9781501515378; 1501506668; 9781501506666Subject(s): Papuan languages -- Grammar | Papuan languages -- Grammar | FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / MiscellaneousGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 499.12 LOC classification: PL6603 | .G47 2018Online resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Intro; Contents; List of Tables; Content Online Supplement; Acknowledgements; 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 reference15. Deixis; 16. Motion; 17. Orientation in time; Bibliography; Subject Index.
Summary: This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of form and meaning and their interface, which is supported through extensive illustration by examples. The narrative structure of entire texts is accessible via a small collection of fully glossed personal and traditional stories included in the Online Supplement. The typological evaluation of selected properties of Kilmeri rounds out the description of the language.
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Intro; Contents; List of Tables; Content Online Supplement; Acknowledgements; 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 reference15. Deixis; 16. Motion; 17. Orientation in time; Bibliography; Subject Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of form and meaning and their interface, which is supported through extensive illustration by examples. The narrative structure of entire texts is accessible via a small collection of fully glossed personal and traditional stories included in the Online Supplement. The typological evaluation of selected properties of Kilmeri rounds out the description of the language.

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