A grammar of Kilmeri

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 t...

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Main Author: Gerstner-Link, Claudia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston ; Berlin De Gruyter Mouton 2018, ©2018
Series:Pacific Linguistics
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 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 reference -- 15. Deixis -- 16. Motion -- 17. Orientation in time -- Bibliography -- Subject Index 
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520 3 |a 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.