30.2992, Books: A Grammar of Qaqet: Hellwig

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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:53:31
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Qaqet: Hellwig

 


Title: A Grammar of Qaqet 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/507216 


Author: Birgit Hellwig

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110613346 Pages: 484 Price: U.S. $ 172.99


Abstract:

This grammar is a first detailed description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian
language spoken in the mountainous interior of East New Britain Province,
Papua New Guinea. Qaqet belongs to the small Baining language family
(comprising six languages), but its wider genetic affiliations remain unclear.
It is included among the geographically-defined East Papuan languages. The
grammar presents a synchronic description of the language. From a language
family perspective, the Baining languages are structurally fairly similar, but
there are considerable differences in detail that point to different
language-internal developments and grammaticalization paths. From an East
Papuan and areal perspective, Qaqet exhibits both typical East Papuan features
(e.g., nominal classification, possessor/possessed order, highly compositional
lexicon) as well as areal features (e.g., AVO ~ SV constituent order, articles
and determiners, prepositions). The description is based on primary data
collected during fieldwork (from 2011 onwards), including both natural and
elicited data. The description thereby provides new analyses and insights that
are relevant to our understanding of the genetic and areal relationships in
this region.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Benga (bng)

Language Family(ies): Baining-Taulil


Written In: English  (eng)

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