33.1830, Books: A grammar of Kalamang: Visser

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 18:51:14
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: A grammar of Kalamang: Visser

 


Title: A grammar of Kalamang 
Series Title: Comprehensive Grammar Library  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/344 


Author: Eline Visser

Electronic: ISBN:  97839611034 Pages: 572 Price: Europe EURO 0


Abstract:

This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in
the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas
and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast
of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is the first comprehensive grammar of a
Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on eleven months of
fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of
spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019. This grammar
covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic
description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure.
More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken
from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is
informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific
school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian
languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful. Kalamang has
several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress,
minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual
markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the
noun and verb – as important domains of attachment. This grammar is
accompanied by an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural
material and a dictionary with 2700 lemmas. It serves as a document of one of
the world's many endangered languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Karas (kgv)


Written In: English  (eng)

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