Sivisa Titan

Sivisa Titan
Author: Claire Bowern
Publisher:
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2011-03-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Map of the Admiralty Islands -- Part A Sketch Grammar -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Description of the Meier Corpus -- 1.2 The Language Name -- 1.3 Classification and Dialects -- 1.4 Sources for Titan/'Moanus' -- 1.4.1 Published Sources -- 1.4.1.1 Schnee (1901) -- 1.4.1.2 Thilenius (1903) -- 1.4.1.3 Meier (1906-1909, 1912) -- 1.4.1.4 Parkinson (1999) -- 1.4.1.5 Mead (1942) -- 1.4.1.6 Fortune (1935) -- 1.4.1.7 Goebel (1956) -- 1.4.1.8 Smythe and Z'Graggen (1975) -- 1.4.1.9 Other published works -- 1.4.2 Unpublished Materials -- 1.5 Methods -- Chapter 2 Phonology -- 2.1 Consonant Phonemes -- 2.1.1 Consonant Inventory -- 2.1.2 Notes on Phonemic Interpretation -- 2.1.2.1 Alternation ∼ -- 2.1.2.2 Palatal Consonants -- 2.1.2.3 Velarized Labials: [pw] and [mw] -- 2.1.2.4 Trills: [mb], [n(d)r], [r] -- 2.1.2.5 Glottal Consonants: [?] and [h] -- 2.2 Vowel Phonemes -- 2.3 Orthography -- 2.4 Syllable Structure and Phonotactics -- 2.4.1 Consonant Clusters -- 2.4.2 Vowel Clusters -- 2.4.3 Number of Syllables in the Word -- 2.4.4 Phonotactics -- 2.5 Lexical Stress -- 2.6 Morphophonemic Alternations -- Chapter 3 Nouns -- 3.1 The Word Class of Nominals -- 3.2 Number -- 3.3 Possession -- 3.3.1 Inalienable Possession: Suffixation -- 3.3.2 Parataxis with Body Parts -- 3.3.3 Alienable Possession -- 3.3.4 Variable Marking -- 3.3.5 Food Possessive -- 3.3.6 Body Part Possession by Compounding -- 3.3.7 Possessors with Null Heads -- 3.4 Compounds -- 3.4.1 Order of Compounded Elements -- 3.4.2 Inalienable Possession -- 3.4.3 Descriptive or Delimiting Compounds -- 3.4.4 Locational Compounds -- 3.4.5 Determinative Compounds -- 3.4.6 Compounded Compounds -- 3.5 Proper Nouns -- 3.6 Derivation in Nominals -- 3.6.1 Derivational Suffixes -- 3.6.2 Reduplication -- 3.6.3 k- Prefixation.


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