A Grammar of Lavukaleve

Angela Terrill

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2003

A Grammar of Lavukaleve

Angela Terrill

Volume 30 in the series Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923964

Overview
Contents

About this book

Lavukaleve is a Papuan Language spoken on the Russell Islands in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands. The phonology and morpho-phonology of Lavukaleve are described, as well as arguments adjuncts, the Lavukaleve predicate structure (including predicate types and core participant marking, the agreement suffix, focus constructions, tense, aspect and mood, word-level derivation, complex predicates), interclausal syntax, and the Lavukaleve discourse organisation. The book includes a list of affixes, a list of lexemes, and an appendix with Lavukaleve texts. The data used in this work was collected by the author during five field trips.

Author / Editor information

Angela Terrill is a research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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I-XXVI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Chapter 1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Phonology and morpho-phonology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 3 Word classes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 4 Noun phrases and possession Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 5 Noun formation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter 6 Gender and agreement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 7 Nominal adjuncts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter 8 Deictics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 9 Overview of clause structure, predicate types and core participant marking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter 10 The Agreement Suffix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Chapter 11 Focus constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Chapter 12 Tense, aspect and mood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Chapter 13 Word-level derivation: word class changing and valency changing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Chapter 14 Complex predicates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Chapter 15 Clause chaining Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Chapter 16 Subordinate clauses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Chapter 17 Questions and negation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
Chapter 18 Discourse organisation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Appendix 1 - Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
Appendix 2 - List of affixes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
Appendix 3 - List of lexemes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	555

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 23
- Main content: 562
Illustrations
- Other: 3 maps
Keywords: Papuasprachen / Sprache

eBook

Published: July 22, 2011
ISBN: 9783110923964

Hardcover

Published: July 17, 2003
ISBN: 9783110178876