A Grammar of Teiwa
Series: Mouton Grammar Library
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9783110226072
Subjects: Linguistics; Language
Description: Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. The genetic relationship between the Alor-Pantar languages and other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, they are the most distant westerly Papuan outliers. This volume presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The grammar is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Frontmatter; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Phonology; Chapter 3. Word classes; Chapter 4. Grammatical relations; Chapter 5. The Noun Phrase; Chapter 6. Non-verbal clauses; Chapter 7. Verbal clauses: The marking of Reality status, Modality and Aspect; Chapter 8. Negative, interrogative, and imperative clauses; Chapter 9. Serial verb constructions; Chapter 10. Clause combinations; Chapter 11. Information structure; Appendix I. Texts; Appendix II. Word lists; Backmatter.