Papers in Linguistics of Melanesia No. 4
Creators: name: Lynch, J. (Ed.)
name: Dodenhoff, D. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1982

description: A-64
description: Contents iii{John Lynch} 1SOUTH-WEST TANNA GRAMMAR OUTLINE AND VOCABULARY. 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. Location 1 1.2. External relations 3 1.3. Data and organisation 3 1.4. Abbreviations 4 2. PHONOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY 5 2.1. Consonants 5 2.2. Vowels 7 2.3. Phonotactics 8 2.4. Stress 10 3. MORPHOLOGY 11 3.1. Verbs 11 3.1.1. Verbal affixes (declarative mode) 12 3.1.2. Verbal affixes (interrogative mode) 23 3.1.3. Verbal affixes (imperative mode) 23 3.1.4. Summary 24 3.2. Nominals 25 3.2.1. Pronouns 25 3.2.2. Directly possessed nouns 27 3.2.3. Other nouns 28 3.2.4. Derivational morphology 29 3.3. Modifiers 31 3.3.1. General modifiers 31 3.3.2. Verbal modifiers 31 3.3.3. Nominal modifiers 32 3.3.4. Quantifiers 32 3.3.5. Grammatical number markers 32 3.3.6. Demonstratives 33 3.4. Adjectives 33 4. SYNTAX 34 4.1. Phrases 34 4.1.1. Verb phrases 34 4.1.2. Noun phrases 35 4.1.3. Location phrases 36 4.1.4. Time phrases 39 4.1.5. Dative phrases 40 4.1.6. Benefactive phrases 40 4.1.7. Instrumental phrases 40 4.1.8. Causative phrases 41 4.1.9. Case-markers: Summary 41 4.2. Noun phrase expansions 41 4.2.1. Coordination 41 4.2.2. Relativisation 42 4.2.3. Complex location phrases 43 4.2.4. Possession 43 4.3. Clauses 47 4.3.1. Verbless clauses 47 4.3.2. Verbal clauses 48 4.4. Sentences 53 4.4.1. Simple sentences 53 4.4.2. Complex sentences 56 5. TEXTS 58 5.1. Nɨvaru 58 5.2. Mwig 61 6. VOCABULARY 63 6.1. South-west Tanna vocabulary 63 6.2. English finder list 77Map 2Notes 88Bibliography 91{John Lynch} 93ANEJOM GRAMMAR SKETCH. 0. INTRODUCTION 93 1. PHONOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY 95 1.1. Consonants 95 1.2. Vowels 97 1.3. Phonotactics 98 1.4. Orthography 99 1.5. Stress 99 2. BASES 100 2.1. Pronouns 100 2.2. Nouns 102 2.2.1. Derivation 102 2.2.2. Pluralisation 103 2.2.3. Compound nouns 104 2.3. Verbs 106 2.3.1. Classes of verbs 106 2.3.2. Verb roots 108 2.3.3. Formation 109 2.3.4. Prefixes 110 2.3.5. Suffixes 110 2.4. Adjectives 112 2.5. Adjuncts 113 2.5.1. Indefinite adjuncts 113 2.5.2. Modifiers 113 2.5.3. Deictics 113 3. PHRASE STRUCTURE 116 3.1. Verb phrases 116 3.1.1. Subject/tense/mood particles 116 3.1.2. Tense and aspect 119 3.1.3. Negation 121 3.1.4. Adverbial particles 121 3.1.5. Verb phrase structure 122 3.2. Noun phrases 122 3.2.1. Simple noun phrases 122 3.2.2. Possessive phrases 123 3.2.3. Noun phrase structure 126 3.3. Other phrases 126 3.3.1. Locative phrases 127 3.3.2. Temporal phrases 129 3.3.3. Other prepositional phrases 130 4. CLAUSE STRUCTURE 131 4.1. Verbless clauses 131 4.2. Basic verbal clause structure 132 4.2.1. Intransitive clauses 132 4.2.2. Transitive clauses 133 4.3. Expanded clauses 134 5. SENTENCE STRUCTURE 135 5.1. Simple sentences 135 5.1.1. Statements 135 5.1.2. Commands 135 5.1.3. Questions 136 5.2. Complex sentences 138 5.2.1. Coordinate clauses 138 5.2.2. Subordination 140 5.3. Locative sentences 142 5.4. Subject-marking in discourse 144 6. TEXT 145Index of grammatical morphemes 149Notes 152Bibliography 154{Daniel D. Dodenhoff} 155A TIKOPIA PHONOLOGY. 1. INTRODUCTION 155 2. PHONEME LEVEL 157 2.1. Phoneme chart 157 2.1.1. Consonants 157 2.1.2. Vowels 157 2.1.3. Description of contrastive features 157 2.2. Description 157 2.2.1. Consonant contrasts 157 2.2.2. Consonant variants 158 2.2.3. Vowel contrasts 159 2.2.4. Vowel variants 160 3. SYLLABLE LEVEL 161 3.1. Syllable contrasts 161 3.2. Distribution of phonemes into the syllable 161 4. PHONOLOGICAL WORD LEVEL 162 5. PHONOLOGICAL PHRASE LEVEL 162 5.1. Phonological phrase 162 5.2. Contrastive phonological phrase types 162 5.2.1. Statement phrases 163 5.2.2. Interrogative phrases 163 6. MORPHOPHONEMICS 163 6.1. Elision 163 6.2. Vowel loss 163 7. ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES 163 7.1. Stress and vowel length 163 7.2. Vowel allophones 164 8. ORTHOGRAPHY 164 9. SAMPLE TEXT 165Map 156Bibliography 166