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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:05:15
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: A Grammar of Northern Subanen: Sanicas-Daguman, Dixon (Ed)

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Title: A Grammar of Northern Subanen 
Series Title: Outstanding grammars from Australia 13  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Author: Josephine Sanicas-Daguman
Editor: R. M. W. Dixon

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862884346 Pages: 684 Price: Europe EURO 102.00


Abstract:

This is a comprehensive description of Northern Subanen, an Austronesian
language spoken by approximately 30,000 people living in the interior
mountains of the north-eastern portion of Zamboanga peninsula in Mindanao, the
Philippines. It analyses a Philippine-type Austronesian language using basic
linguistic theory. After giving a summary of the phonology, it defines the
category ‘word’ in the language and discusses the word classes identified on
language internal grounds. It recognises a distinct adjective class,
explaining its properties in detail. The demonstrative class is also discussed
in depth. A number of chapters are dedicated to explore the morpho-syntactic
possibilities of a dozen semantic classes of verbs. Verbs are shown to have
high propensity to change valency and/or rearrange arguments and syntactic
functions. Basic verbal clause structures serve as  templates for derived
constructions and basic verbal affix forms are recycled for derivational
functions. Active verb morphology marks syntactic transitivity. Only about one
percent of mono-clausal verbal constructions would be headed by serial verbs.
Pivot constraints in SVCs and other attested instances of syntactic ergativity
are discussed; also examined is core argument marking, which displays
morphological ergativity. Imperative, subordinate and conjoined constructions
are dealt with in depth. The description concludes with a typological profile
of the language.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Austronesian Languages
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Subanen, Northern (stb)


Written In: English  (eng)

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