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Date: 28-May-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Doromu-Koki: Bradshaw (2024)


Title: A Grammar of Doromu-Koki
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Pacific Languages 01
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969392058%22

Author(s): Robert L. Bradshaw

17x24 cm. ISBN 9783969392058 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Pacific
Languages 01. 754pp. 196 EUR.

Abstract:

A Grammar of Doromu-Koki covers major features of this formerly
minimally described language of Papua New Guinea. This Papuan
language, which has been classified as Southeast Manubaran, is spoken
by approximately 2,000 speakers. Half reside in the original community
area, located in the Owen Stanley ranges to the east-southeast of the
capital, Port Moresby, while the remainder are currently living and
working there in the capital. This analysis includes culturally
appropriate examples from a corpus collected over a period of 18
years. It follows the Basic Linguistic Theory (Dixon 2010a, 2010b and
2012) and The Art of Grammar (Aikhenvald 2015c) framework. The
following core aspects of the language studied include: phonology and
morphophonology, word classes, complex predicates and verb phrase
structure, clause types and structure, clause combining,
discourse-pragmatic devices and features of the lexicon. The analysis
seeks to promote the preservation of an already endangered language
for the benefit of its speakers, and also for linguistic and
anthropological scholarship.
Textual examples are supplemented by forty-two interlinearised texts
of several genres. Indices further specify details of these texts and
any others cited in the analysis. Various interesting lexical items
include: homonyms, lexeme senses, verbal semantics, autochthonous
versus borrowed synonyms, idioms, borrowed terms and biblical
translation key terms. The work concludes with a vocabulary list of
all Doromu-Koki words and affixes found therein.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Doromu-Koki (kqc)

Language Family(ies): Manubaran

Written In: English (eng)



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