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From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: A Grammar of Teiwa: Klamer
 

	
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Subject: A Grammar of Teiwa: Klamer

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Title: A Grammar of Teiwa 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 49  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110226065-1 


Author: Marian Klamer

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110226072 Pages: 540 Price: Europe EURO 149.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110226065 Pages: 540 Price: Europe EURO 149.95


Abstract:

Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of
Pantar, in eastern Indonesia, located just north of Timor island. It has
approx. 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. While the non-Austronesian
languages of the Alor-Pantar archipelago are clearly related to each other,
as indicated by the many apparent cognates and the very similar pronominal
paradigms found across the group, their genetic relationship to other
Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their
putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, the Alor-Pantar
languages are the most distant westerly Papuan outliers. A grammar of Teiwa
presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages.

The book is structured as a reference grammar: after a general introduction
on the language, it speakers and the linguistic situation on Alor and
Pantar, the grammar builds up from a description of the language's
phonology and word classes to its larger grammatical constituents and their
mutual relations: nominal phrases, serial verb constructions, clauses,
clause combinations, and information structure. While many Papuan languages
are morphologically complex, Teiwa is almost analytic: it has only one
paradigm of object marking prefixes, and one verbal suffix marking realis
status. Other typologically interesting features of the language include:
(i) the presence of uvular fricatives and stops, which is atypical for
languages of eastern Indonesia; (ii) the absence of trivalent verbs:
transitive verbs select a single (animate or inanimate) object, while the
additional participant is expressed with a separate predicate; and (iii)
the absence of morpho-syntactically encoded embedded clauses. A grammar of
Teiwa is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007.
A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and
word lists (Teiwa-English / English-Teiwa) are included. 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax
                     Anthropological Linguistics
                     Endangered Languages
                     Grammars
                     Language Typology

Subject Language(s): Tewa (twe)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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