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A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako

:	Åshild Næss, Even Hovdhaugen
:	A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110238273
:	Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 235.00
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

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< >This Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako is the most comprehensive grammar of any Polynesian Outlier to date, and the first full-length grammar of any language of Temotu Province. Based on extensive fieldwork, it is structured as a reference grammar dealing with all aspects of language structure, from phonology to discourse organization, and including a selection of glossed texts.

< >Ashild Naess andEven Hovdhaugen, University of Oslo, Norway.

	Preface	6
	Table of contents	8
	Abbreviations	19
	Grammatical glosses	19
	Lexical categories	20
	Language, dialect and language family names	20
	Chapter 1 Introduction	22
	1.1. Language, location, and speakers	22
	1.2. Language affiliation and history	29
	1.3. Previous work	35
	1.4. Current language situation	36
	1.5. Data	40
	1.6. Typological profile	41
	Chapter 2 Phonology	43
	2.1. Introduction	43
	2.2. Syllable structure and stress	43
	2.3. Vowels	44
	2.4. Consonants	55
	2.5. Further phonological alternations	66
	2.6. Orthography	68
	2.7. Word division and the representation of examples	70
	Chapter 3 Word classes	72
	3.1. Introduction	72
	3.2. Nouns	73
	3.3. Verbs	78
	3.4. Adjectives	99
	3.5. Adverbs	100
	3.6. Pronouns	100
	3.7. Prepositions	101
	3.8. Demonstratives	101
	3.9. Articles	101
	3.10. Quantifiers	102
	3.11. Conjunctions	102
	3.12. The subjunction o	102
	3.13. The complementizer po	103
	3.14. The personal marker a	103
	3.15. Interjections	103
	3.16. Particles	104
	Chapter 4 Reduplication	106
	4.1. Introduction	106
	4.2. Partial reduplication	108
	4.3. Full reduplication	111
	4.4. Functions of reduplication	112
	Chapter 5 Deictics	118
	5.1. Introduction	118
	5.2. Pronouns	119
	5.3. Demonstratives	142
	5.4. Directionals	154
	Chapter 6 Nominal morphology	166
	6.1. Introduction	166
	6.2. Inflection and derivation	166
	6.3. Compound nouns and complex noun-phrase nuclei	172
	Chapter 7 Noun phrase structure	179
	7.1. Overview of noun phrase structure	179
	7.2. Heads of noun phrases	179
	7.3. Prenuclear elements	181
	7.4. Postnuclear elements	204
	7.5. Nominalized clauses	210
	Chapter 8 Verbal morphology	217
	8.1. Inflectional morphology	217
	8.2. Derivational morphology	218
	Chapter 9 Verb phrase structure	249
	9.1. Introduction	249
	9.2. Prenuclear elements	251
	9.3. Nuclear elements	252
	9.4. Adverbial modifiers	264
	9.5. Postverbal particles	266
	9.6. Post-VP modifiers	270
	Chapter 10 Prepositions	272
	10.1. Introduction	272
	10.2. Spatial prepositions	272
	10.3. Possessive prepositions	275
	10.4. Benefactive prepositions	276
	10.5. Comitative prepositions	278
	10.6. Role-marking prepositions	279
	10.7. Prepositional phrases	287
	Chapter 11 Modifiers	289
	11.1. Introduction	289
	11.2. Adjectives	289
	11.3. Modifying particles	290
	11.4. Adverbs	298
	11.5. Adverbial phrases	305
	Chapter 12 Tense, aspect, and mood	312
	12.1. Introduction	312
	12.2. Mainly aspectual markers	313
	12.3. Mainly temporal markers	318
	12.4. Mainly modal markers	320
	12.5. The transitive suffix -i	324
	12.6. Combinations of TAM particles	326
	12.7. Other expressions of aspect	328
	Chapter 13 Simple clauses	331
	13.1. Introduction	331
	13.2. Grammatical relations and word order	331
	13.3. Different clause types	338
	13.4. Dislocated topics	352
	Chapter 14 Complex clauses	356
	14.1. Introduction	356
	14.2. Complement clauses	356
	14.3. Relative clauses	369
	14.4. Adverbial clauses	375
	Chapter 15 Serial verbs and related constructions	393
	15.1. Introduction	393
	15.2. Head-modifier (nuclear-layer) serialization	395
	15.3. Complex-event constructions	396
	15.4. Motion + purpose constructions	397
	15.5. Core-layer serialization	399
	Chapter 16 Negation and questions	406
	16.1. Introduction	406
	16.2. Negation	406
	16.3. Questions	419
	Chapter 17 Coordination and conjunctions	431
	17.1. Introduction	431
	17.2. Phrasal coordination	432
	17.3. Sentential coordination	437
	17.4. Adverbial conjunctions	446
	Chapter 18 Discourse organization	453
	18.1. Introduction	453
	18.2. Demonstratives in discourse	453
	18.3. Tail-head linkage	469
	18.4. Discourse-linkage verbs	472
	18.5. Discourse particles	476
	Appendix 1 Texts	482
	Vaeakau: Our culture and language	482
	Nupani: A story about a fight on Tinakula	496
	Taumako: A story of Papa in the Duff Islands	504
	Matema: Mala hekai – ‘cruel garden’	515
	Appendix 2 List of grammatical morphemes	521
	References	524
	Index	534