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A Grammar of Savosavo Grammar of Savosavo

:	Claudia Wegener
:	A Grammar of Savosavo Grammar of Savosavo
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110289657
:	Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]ISSN
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:	CHF 189.80
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

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< >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.

< >Claudia Wegener, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

	List of tables	11
	List of figures	13
	Abbreviations	15
	1 The language and its speakers	17
	1.1 Location and linguistic affiliation	17
	1.2 Typological profile	21
	1.3 Previous work on Savosavo	24
	1.4 The nature of the data used in this grammar	24
	1.5 Orthography and conventions used in examples	25
	2 Phonology	29
	2.1 Phoneme inventory	29
	2.1.1 Consonants	29
	2.1.2 Minimal contrast between consonants	34
	2.1.3 Vowels	35
	2.1.4 Minimal contrast between vowels	36
	2.1.5 Vowel combinations	36
	2.1.6 Diphthong	36
	2.2 Syllable and root structure	38
	2.3 Stress	39
	2.3.1 Root stress	40
	2.3.2 Influence of affixes and clitics on stress	40
	2.4 Morphophonology	44
	2.4.1 Influence of affixes and enclitics	45
	2.4.1.1 Avoidance of identical vowel sequences	45
	2.4.1.2 Stem modifications	46
	2.4.2 Reduplication	48
	2.5 Intonation	50
	2.5.1 Basic clausal pitch contours	51
	2.5.2 Intonation associated with some discourse particles	56
	3 Word formation	59
	3.1 Terminology	59
	3.2 Morphological processes	61
	3.2.1 Affixation and cliticization	61
	3.2.2 Reduplication	62
	3.2.3 Stem modification	62
	4 Word classes and phrase types	64
	4.1 Verbs and the verb complex	64
	4.1.1 Verbs	64
	4.1.1.1 Transitive verbs	66
	4.1.1.2 Intransitive verbs	71
	4.1.1.3 Ambitransitive verbs	72
	4.1.2 Verb complex - short overview	72
	4.2 Nouns and noun phrases	73
	4.2.1 Nouns	73
	4.2.1.1 Gender	76
	4.2.2 Noun phrase - short overview	82
	4.3 Adjectives and adjective phrases	84
	4.3.1 Adjectives	84
	4.3.2 Adjective phrases	88
	4.4 Quantifiers and quantifier phrases	88
	4.4.1 Quantifiers	88
	4.4.1.1 Numerals and the counting system	89
	4.4.1.2 Other quantifiers	91
	4.4.2 Quantifier phrases	92
	4.5 Pronominals	93
	4.5.1 Personal pronouns	93
	4.5.1.1 Free personal pronouns	93
	4.5.1.2 Enclitic subject personal pronouns	95
	4.5.2 Possessive pronouns	96
	4.5.3 Emphatic pronouns	97
	4.5.4 Mapamapa ‘RECIP’	99
	4.6 Determiners and the demonstrative ai ‘this’	100
	4.6.1 Determiners vs. personal pronouns	101
	4.6.2 Demonstratives vs. definite articles	103
	4.7 Locationals	105
	4.7.1 A note on frames of reference	107
	4.8 Derivative markers	111
	4.8.1 The attributive marker sua and sua-phrases	111
	4.8.2 The proprietive marker lava and lava-phrases	114
	4.8.3 The privative marker zepo and zepo-phrases	117
	4.9 Postpositions and postpositional phrases	118
	4.9.1 l-aka ‘with’	121
	4.9.2 l-omata ‘at, to(wards), from’	121
	4.9.3 l-omiti ‘for’	123
	4.10 The emphatic modifier toa ‘really’	124
	4.11 The modifiers memere ‘little bit’ and pono ‘only’	126
	4.12 Adverbs	127
	4.12.1 Temporal adverbs	127
	4.12.2 Other adverbs	128
	4.13 Particles	129
	4.13.1 Coordinators, subordinators and cosubordinators	129
	4.13.2 Miscellaneous particles	129
	4.14 Interjections	130
	4.14.1 Hesitation markers	130
	4.14.2 Exclamations	130
	5 Noun phrases	132
	5.1 NP structure	132
	5.1.1 Order of constituents within an NP	132
	5.1.1.1 NPs headed by a noun or nominal compound and headless NPs	134
	5.1.1.2 NPs headed by a pronoun	140
	5.1.1.3 NPs headed by a locational	142
	5.1.2 Number and gender marking	143
	5.1.3 Possession	146
	5.2 Case marking	147
	5.2.1 Nominative	150
	5.2.2 Accusative	152
	5.2.3 Genitive	153
	5.2.4 Locative	156
	5.2.5 Ablative	161
	5.3 Composite NPs	163
	5.3.1 Coordination in and between NPs	164
	5.3.1.1 Coordination by juxtaposition	166
	5.3.1.2 Coordination with zu ‘and’	168
	5.3.1.3 Coordination with bo ‘or’	169
	5.3.1.4 Coordination with tei kia ‘or’	170
	5.3.2 Appositional construction	171
	5.3.3 Inclusory construction	172
	6 The verb complex	177
	6.1 Structure of individual verb stems	177
	6.2 Inner layer morphology	180
	6.2.1 Object marking	180
	6.2.1.1 Object affixes: agreement or pronominal suffixes?	183
	6.2.2 Transitivity-changing devices	185
	6.2.2.1 The transitivizing suffix -vi	185
	6.2.2.2 Thedetransitivizing suffix -za	187
	6.3 Outer layer morphology	188
	6.3.1 Finiteness	188
	6.3.2 Tense and aspect	190
	6.3.2.1 The future marker ta	190
	6.3.2.2 The anticipatory marker -ata	191
	6.3.2.3 The simultaneous marker -a	192
	6.3.2.4 The present and past imperfective markers -tu and -zu	193
	6.3.2.5 The background imperfective markers -ale and -atu	193
	6.3.3 Mood	195
	6.3.3.1 The imperative markers -a and -lu	195
	6.3.3.2 The apprehensive marker -le	196
	6.3.3.3 The irrealis marker -ale	196
	6.3.4 The same-subject marker -a	197
	6.4 Reduplication	199
	6.5 Serial verb constructions	202
	6.5.1 SVCs with fully lexical verbs	203
	6.5.2 SVCs with aspectual verbs	205
	6.5.2.1 Complet