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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>SIL International is happy to announce the following publication:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Frampton, Joanna Margarat. 2020. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Maisin: <i>A Grammatical Description of an Oceanic Language in Papua New Guinea</i>. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>SIL e-Books 76. xii, 129 pp.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This is a revised MA thesis, defended at the University of Otago (New Zealand), available online at <a href="https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/86283">https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/86283</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Maisin: A Grammatical Description of an Oceanic Language in PNG</span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> is a descriptive study of the Maisin language [mbq] spoken in Collingwood Bay on the north coast of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, with particular treatment of those features that distinguish the language from other Austronesian languages within the Papuan Tip cluster. <br>Some of the distinctive features of Maisin described include: its topic and focus marking system; its use of postpositional phrases (showing proto-Austronesian forms, but following Papuan categories); chaining of coordinate dependent clauses preceding an independent clause; marking of tense, mood and aspect by suffixes rather than by prefixes; the existence of a closed set of intransitive verbs which mark subject person and number by suffixation only; and a typically Papuan style marking of medial and final verbs in serial verb constructions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>After providing an overview of the phonology and syntactic structure of the language, the author concludes by giving attention to the topic and focus marking system, and some tentative suggestions regarding the interaction of these markers within the information structure system of the language.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>