30.156, Books: A Grammar of Cheke Holo: Boswell

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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:20:06
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: A Grammar of Cheke Holo: Boswell

 


Title: A Grammar of Cheke Holo 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/a-grammar-of-cheke-holo 


Author: Fredrick Alvin Boswell

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933035 Pages: 263 Price: Europe EURO 36.00


Abstract:

This book provides a synchronic description of the phonology, word classes,
morphology, and syntax of the Cheke Holo language. Cheke Holo is an
Austronesian language of the Oceanic subgroup, spoken by 11,000 speakers on
Santa Isabel island in the Solomon Islands. This is the first published
grammar of Cheke Holo. It is based on the author’s 30 years of linguistic work
carried out among Cheke Holo speakers.

Like many other Oceanic languages, Cheke Holo has SVO word order, serial
verbs, distinguishes alienable and inalianable possession of nouns, and
reduplicates verbs to intensify or prolong the action they denote. Four types
of demonstratives are attested in Cheke Holo. Basic distinctions of the
demonstratives occur between specificity and number, and whether or not the
noun modified is proximal or distal. The two-way distinction of past and
non-past is the most useful descriptor for the Cheke Holo tense system.
Several features of Cheke Holo phonology and grammar are less typical for an
Oceanic language. These include its consonant clusters, the voiceless
continuants, the verb nominalizations in four different phonemic environments,
and the gender distinction in the third person singular pronouns. Cheke Holo
has a broad inventory of adjectives, and these are often inflected for aspect
and possession, and derived into causative verbs. This book also provides
information on the encoding of pragmatic emphasis as this is a common feature
of Cheke Holo grammar.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Cheke Holo (mrn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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