A Grammar of Yélî Dnye : The Papuan Language of Rossel Island /

This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levinson, Stephen C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2022]
Colección:Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 666
Temas:
Yele language > Grammar.
Ozeanien.
Papua Neuguinea.
Sprachentwicklung.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Language Complexity and Evolution.
Language Isolate.
Oceania/Papua/Melanesia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Conventions
  • 1 Introduction: The language and its speakers
  • Part I: The Grammar
  • 2 The character of the language
  • 3 Phonology
  • 4 The lexicon: Morphemes, lexemes and parts of speech
  • 5 The noun phrase
  • 6 The verb complex
  • 7 The simple clause
  • 8 Complex sentences
  • 9 Yélî Dnye as a syntactically ergative language
  • 10 Negation
  • an overview
  • Part II: Topics in semantics and language use
  • 11 Lexical fields
  • 12 Taboo 'languages', special vocabularies and registers of Yélî Dnye
  • Appendix I Places of major locations
  • Appendix II Sample text
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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