32.517, Books: A Grammar of Papapana: Smith-Dennis

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:23:21
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Papapana: Smith-Dennis

 


Title: A Grammar of Papapana 
Subtitle: An Oceanic Language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea 
Series Title: Pacific Linguistics [PL]  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501509971/html 


Author: Ellen Smith-Dennis

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501516801 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This monograph is not only the first comprehensive grammar of Papapana (a
previously undocumented and under-described endangered language) but the first
full reference grammar of any Oceanic language of Bougainville, Papua New
Guinea, despite this region displaying considerable linguistic innovation and
language contact phenomena with numerous typologically significant features.
This book describes Papapana on various levels, including phonology,
morphology and syntax in noun phrases and the verb complex, and syntax at the
clause- and sentence-level. Throughout the grammar, the described phenomena
are related to the current research on typological and Oceanic linguistics.
Typologically unusual features of Papapana include multiple reduplication,
inverse-number marking in the noun phrase and postverbal subject-indexing. The
book also describes the sociolinguistic and historical context within which
Papapana is spoken and highlights linguistic changes resulting from language
contact. The monograph fills an important gap in terms of grammatical
descriptions of Bougainville Oceanic languages, and makes a significant
contribution to the field of Oceanic linguistics, and to future comparative
linguistic and typological research.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Papapana (ppn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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