30.3013, Books: A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: Kulick, Terrill

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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:04:00
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: Kulick, Terrill

 


Title: A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap 
Subtitle: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language 
Series Title: Pacific Linguistics [PL]  

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

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/523133 


Author: Don Kulick
Author: Angela Terrill

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501517570 Pages: 496 Price: U.S. $ 160.99


Abstract:

Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single
village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The
language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap
is dying. Fewer than fifty speakers actively command it today.

Based on linguistic anthropological work conducted over the course of thirty
years, this book describes the grammar of the language, detailing its
phonology, morphology and syntax. It devotes particular attention to verbs,
which are the most elaborated area of the grammar, and which are complex,
fusional and massively suppletive.The book also provides a full
Tayap-English-Tok Pisin dictionary. 

A particularly innovative contribution is the detailed discussions of how
Tayap’'s grammar is dissolving in the language of young speakers. The book
exemplifies how the complex structures in fluent speakers’ Tayap are reduced
or reanalyzed by younger speakers.

This grammar and dictionary should therefore be a valuable resource for anyone
interested in the mechanics of how languages disappear. The fact that it is
the sole documentation of this unique Papuan language should also make it of
interest to areal specialists and language typologists.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Linguistic Theories

Language Family(ies): Sepik
                      Sepik-Ramu 


Written In: English  (eng)

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