E-Book, Englisch, Band 61, 416 Seiten
Wegener A Grammar of Savosavo
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028965-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 61, 416 Seiten
Reihe: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-028965-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This is the first comprehensive description of Savosavo, a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language spoken by approximately 2,500 speakers on Savo Island, Solomon Islands. Based on primary field data recorded by the author, it provides an overview of all levels of grammar. In addition, a full chapter is dedicated to nominalization of verbs by means of one particular suffix, which occur in a number of constructions ranging from lexical to syntactic nominalization. The appendix provides glossed example texts and a list of lexemes.
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Linguists working in the Areas of Typology, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Contact and Historical Linguistics in Melanesia.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1;List of tables;11
2;List of figures;13
3;Abbreviations;15
4;1 The language and its speakers;17
4.1;1.1 Location and linguistic affiliation;17
4.2;1.2 Typological profile;21
4.3;1.3 Previous work on Savosavo;24
4.4;1.4 The nature of the data used in this grammar;24
4.5;1.5 Orthography and conventions used in examples;25
5;2 Phonology;29
5.1;2.1 Phoneme inventory;29
5.1.1;2.1.1 Consonants;29
5.1.2;2.1.2 Minimal contrast between consonants;34
5.1.3;2.1.3 Vowels;35
5.1.4;2.1.4 Minimal contrast between vowels;36
5.1.5;2.1.5 Vowel combinations;36
5.1.6;2.1.6 Diphthong;36
5.2;2.2 Syllable and root structure;38
5.3;2.3 Stress;39
5.3.1;2.3.1 Root stress;40
5.3.2;2.3.2 Influence of affixes and clitics on stress;40
5.4;2.4 Morphophonology;44
5.4.1;2.4.1 Influence of affixes and enclitics;45
5.4.1.1;2.4.1.1 Avoidance of identical vowel sequences;45
5.4.1.2;2.4.1.2 Stem modifications;46
5.4.2;2.4.2 Reduplication;48
5.5;2.5 Intonation;50
5.5.1;2.5.1 Basic clausal pitch contours;51
5.5.2;2.5.2 Intonation associated with some discourse particles;56
6;3 Word formation;59
6.1;3.1 Terminology;59
6.2;3.2 Morphological processes;61
6.2.1;3.2.1 Affixation and cliticization;61
6.2.2;3.2.2 Reduplication;62
6.2.3;3.2.3 Stem modification;62
7;4 Word classes and phrase types;64
7.1;4.1 Verbs and the verb complex;64
7.1.1;4.1.1 Verbs;64
7.1.1.1;4.1.1.1 Transitive verbs;66
7.1.1.2;4.1.1.2 Intransitive verbs;71
7.1.1.3;4.1.1.3 Ambitransitive verbs;72
7.1.2;4.1.2 Verb complex - short overview;72
7.2;4.2 Nouns and noun phrases;73
7.2.1;4.2.1 Nouns;73
7.2.1.1;4.2.1.1 Gender;76
7.2.2;4.2.2 Noun phrase - short overview;82
7.3;4.3 Adjectives and adjective phrases;84
7.3.1;4.3.1 Adjectives;84
7.3.2;4.3.2 Adjective phrases;88
7.4;4.4 Quantifiers and quantifier phrases;88
7.4.1;4.4.1 Quantifiers;88
7.4.1.1;4.4.1.1 Numerals and the counting system;89
7.4.1.2;4.4.1.2 Other quantifiers;91
7.4.2;4.4.2 Quantifier phrases;92
7.5;4.5 Pronominals;93
7.5.1;4.5.1 Personal pronouns;93
7.5.1.1;4.5.1.1 Free personal pronouns;93
7.5.1.2;4.5.1.2 Enclitic subject personal pronouns;95
7.5.2;4.5.2 Possessive pronouns;96
7.5.3;4.5.3 Emphatic pronouns;97
7.5.4;4.5.4 Mapamapa ‘RECIP’;99
7.6;4.6 Determiners and the demonstrative ai ‘this’;100
7.6.1;4.6.1 Determiners vs. personal pronouns;101
7.6.2;4.6.2 Demonstratives vs. definite articles;103
7.7;4.7 Locationals;105
7.7.1;4.7.1 A note on frames of reference;107
7.8;4.8 Derivative markers;111
7.8.1;4.8.1 The attributive marker sua and sua-phrases;111
7.8.2;4.8.2 The proprietive marker lava and lava-phrases;114
7.8.3;4.8.3 The privative marker zepo and zepo-phrases;117
7.9;4.9 Postpositions and postpositional phrases;118
7.9.1;4.9.1 l-aka ‘with’;121
7.9.2;4.9.2 l-omata ‘at, to(wards), from’;121
7.9.3;4.9.3 l-omiti ‘for’;123
7.10;4.10 The emphatic modifier toa ‘really’;124
7.11;4.11 The modifiers memere ‘little bit’ and pono ‘only’;126
7.12;4.12 Adverbs;127
7.12.1;4.12.1 Temporal adverbs;127
7.12.2;4.12.2 Other adverbs;128
7.13;4.13 Particles;129
7.13.1;4.13.1 Coordinators, subordinators and cosubordinators;129
7.13.2;4.13.2 Miscellaneous particles;129
7.14;4.14 Interjections;130
7.14.1;4.14.1 Hesitation markers;130
7.14.2;4.14.2 Exclamations;130
8;5 Noun phrases;132
8.1;5.1 NP structure;132
8.1.1;5.1.1 Order of constituents within an NP;132
8.1.1.1;5.1.1.1 NPs headed by a noun or nominal compound and headless NPs;134
8.1.1.2;5.1.1.2 NPs headed by a pronoun;140
8.1.1.3;5.1.1.3 NPs headed by a locational;142
8.1.2;5.1.2 Number and gender marking;143
8.1.3;5.1.3 Possession;146
8.2;5.2 Case marking;147
8.2.1;5.2.1 Nominative;150
8.2.2;5.2.2 Accusative;152
8.2.3;5.2.3 Genitive;153
8.2.4;5.2.4 Locative;156
8.2.5;5.2.5 Ablative;161
8.3;5.3 Composite NPs;163
8.3.1;5.3.1 Coordination in and between NPs;164
8.3.1.1;5.3.1.1 Coordination by juxtaposition;166
8.3.1.2;5.3.1.2 Coordination with zu ‘and’;168
8.3.1.3;5.3.1.3 Coordination with bo ‘or’;169
8.3.1.4;5.3.1.4 Coordination with tei kia ‘or’;170
8.3.2;5.3.2 Appositional construction;171
8.3.3;5.3.3 Inclusory construction;172
9;6 The verb complex;177
9.1;6.1 Structure of individual verb stems;177
9.2;6.2 Inner layer morphology;180
9.2.1;6.2.1 Object marking;180
9.2.1.1;6.2.1.1 Object affixes: agreement or pronominal suffixes?;183
9.2.2;6.2.2 Transitivity-changing devices;185
9.2.2.1;6.2.2.1 The transitivizing suffix -vi;185
9.2.2.2;6.2.2.2 Thedetransitivizing suffix -za;187
9.3;6.3 Outer layer morphology;188
9.3.1;6.3.1 Finiteness;188
9.3.2;6.3.2 Tense and aspect;190
9.3.2.1;6.3.2.1 The future marker ta;190
9.3.2.2;6.3.2.2 The anticipatory marker -ata;191
9.3.2.3;6.3.2.3 The simultaneous marker -a;192
9.3.2.4;6.3.2.4 The present and past imperfective markers -tu and -zu;193
9.3.2.5;6.3.2.5 The background imperfective markers -ale and -atu;193
9.3.3;6.3.3 Mood;195
9.3.3.1;6.3.3.1 The imperative markers -a and -lu;195
9.3.3.2;6.3.3.2 The apprehensive marker -le;196
9.3.3.3;6.3.3.3 The irrealis marker -ale;196
9.3.4;6.3.4 The same-subject marker -a;197
9.4;6.4 Reduplication;199
9.5;6.5 Serial verb constructions;202
9.5.1;6.5.1 SVCs with fully lexical verbs;203
9.5.2;6.5.2 SVCs with aspectual verbs;205
9.5.2.1;6.5.2.1 Completive: SVC with l-aju ‘finish’;205
9.5.2.2;6.5.2.2 Background imperfective: SVC with pale/patu ‘stay’;207
9.5.2.3;6.5.2.3 Ingressive: SVC with alu ‘stand’;208
9.5.3;6.5.3 SVCs with verbs that increase the transitivity of the verb complex;208
9.5.3.1;6.5.3.1 Benefactive: SVC with l-ame-li ‘give’;209
9.5.3.2;6.5.3.2 Causative: SVC with l-au ‘take’;210
10;7 Independent basic clauses;212
10.1;7.1 Affirmative declarative clauses;212
10.1.1;7.1.1 Verbal clauses;213
10.1.1.1;7.1.1.1 Verb-initial minimal clauses;216
10.1.1.2;7.1.1.2 Adjuncts;218
10.1.1.3;7.1.1.3 Summary and a note on basic word order;219
10.1.2;7.1.2 Non-verbal clauses;220
10.1.2.1;7.1.2.1 Locational clauses;222
10.1.2.1.1;7.1.2.1.1 Subject-predicate locational clauses;223
10.1.2.1.2;7.1.2.1.2 Predicate-subject locational clauses;223
10.1.2.2;7.1.2.2 Property clauses and classificational clauses;226
10.1.2.2.1;7.1.2.2.1 NP predicates;228
10.1.2.2.2;7.1.2.2.2 Sua- and lava-phrase predicates;231
10.1.2.3;7.1.2.3 Non-verbal clauses with a NVC predicate;233
10.2;7.2 The emphatic morphemes =e and te;234
10.2.1;7.2.1 The emphatic enclitic =e;235
10.2.1.1;7.2.1.1 Non-verbal clauses and =e ‘EMPH’;236
10.2.1.2;7.2.1.2 Verbal clauses and =e ‘EMPH’;240
10.2.1.3;7.2.1.3 Nominalized verbal clauses marked by =e ‘EMPH’;240
10.2.1.4;7.2.1.4 Functions of =e ‘EMPH’;243
10.2.2;7.2.2 The emphasizing particle te ‘EMPH’;249
10.3;7.3 Negation;253
10.3.1;7.3.1 Oma ‘not’;253
10.3.2;7.3.2 The negative existentials baigho and baighoza;255
10.3.3;7.3.3 The irrealis suffix -ale;256
10.3.4;7.3.4 The prohibitive particle sika;256
10.3.5;7.3.5 The apprehensive suffix -le;256
10.4;7.4 Questions;256
10.4.1;7.4.1 Content questions;257
10.4.2;7.4.2 Polar questions;260
10.5;7.5 Apprehensive clauses;260
11;8 Complex clauses;263
11.1;8.1 Coordination of clauses;264
11.1.1;8.1.1 Coordination with zu ‘and, but’;265
11.1.2;8.1.2 Coordination with bo ‘or’;266
11.1.3;8.1.3 Coordination with apoi ‘because’;267
11.2;8.2 Subordination;267
11.2.1;8.2.1 Relative clauses;268
11.2.1.1;8.2.1.1 Relative clauses with -tu ‘REL’;269
11.2.1.2;8.2.1.2 Relative clauses with sua ‘ATT’;275
11.2.2;8.2.2 Adverbial clauses;279
11.2.2.1;8.2.2.1 Conditional clauses with monei ‘if only’;280
11.2.2.2;8.2.2.2 Conditional and future temporal clauses with kia ‘if’;281
11.2.2.3;8.2.2.3 Past and present temporal clauses;284
11.2.2.3.1;8.2.2.3.1 Temporal clauses with tuka ‘whenever’;284
11.2.2.3.2;8.2.2.3.2 Temporal clauses with tulola ‘then’;286
11.2.2.4;8.2.2.4 Simultaneous clauses;290
11.2.2.5;8.2.2.5 Purpose clauses;296
11.2.2.5.1;8.2.2.5.1 Purpose clauses with te/ke ‘CONJ’;296
11.2.2.5.2;8.2.2.5.2 Asyndetic, embedded purpose clauses;299
11.2.3;8.2.3 Complement clauses;300
11.3;8.3 Cosubordination;301
11.3.1;8.3.1 Structure of clause chains;301
11.3.2;8.3.2 Same-subject marking;306
11.3.3;8.3.3 Scope of verbal morphology in the final clause;309
11.3.4;8.3.4 Tail-head linkage;312
12;9 Nominalization with -ghu ‘NMLZ’;314
12.1;9.1 Theoretical background on ‘nominalization’;314
12.1.1;9.1.1 Lexical vs. clausal nominalization;317
12.2;9.2 Derivation of nouns;318
12.3;9.3 Nominalizations in a support verb construction;322
12.4;9.4 Nominalizations as state-of-affairs complements;325
12.5;9.5 Nominalizations in subject or predicate position;328
12.5.1;9.5.1 Subject of a verbal clause;329
12.5.2;9.5.2 Constituent of a non-verbal clause;330
12.6;9.6 Nominalized verbal clauses in a presentational construction;333
12.6.1;9.6.1 Internal structure of NVCs;334
12.6.2;9.6.2 NVCs as a thetic structure;338
12.6.3;9.6.3 Discourse function of NVCs;340
12.7;9.7 Summary;343
13;A Example texts;346
13.1;A.1 Koi Polupolu;346
13.2;A.2 Man & Tree game;355
13.3;A.3 Making poporaghi pudding;370
14;B List of lexemes;375
15;Bibliography;403
16;Index;410
