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A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512209-011Tayap-English-Tok Pisin DictionaryHow to read the dictionary The Tayap alphabet has 21 letters: a, b, d, e, g, i, ɨ, j, k, l, m, n, ŋ, o, p, r, s, t, u, w, y. No words begin with ɨ, and words underlyingly beginning with b, d, g and j are prenasalized and pronounced as [mb], [d], [ŋg] and [nj]. As explained in Section 2.8 of the Grammar, this prenasalization is marked orthographically, with the result that there are no words that begin with the letters b, g, or j, beginning instead with mb, ŋg and nj. Only one word – a loan word from the neighboring Adjora language – begins with d.A dictionary entry contains the following information:otar1.n.fire; paia.2.(euphemism), anger; kros. Yu munjenonana mamrara wakakkutak,yuwonana otar rorikakkutak: Youquiver in your boots whenever anyoneelse asks you for things but when yourown family asks you for anything, a firegets lit! (i.e. you get angry and beginshouting); Yu save guria i stap wantaimol narapela, tasol ol lain bilong yu i laikimwanem samting bilong yu, paia i savelait! (olsem yu save kros na bikmaus).3.torch, flashlight; tos.4.fever, bikpela hot long skin. Toto otarsumanŋa: Skin is burning up; Skin ihot nogut tru.Head wordin TayapWord class(part of speech)Translationinto EnglishTranslation intoTok PisinExamples toshow how theword is used incontextOnly unbound, freestanding words are listed in the dictionary. Tayap’s bound morphemes are discussed in the relevant sections of the Grammar. Tayap verbs are identified as transitive or intransitive. Verbs also commonly occur in serial verb constructions. Those that almost exclusively occur in such constructions are marked as such (see below; see also Chapter 8). Verbs appear in the dictionary alphabetized according to the form the verb stem takes when it is negated (See Section 5.2).
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512209-011Tayap-English-Tok Pisin DictionaryHow to read the dictionary The Tayap alphabet has 21 letters: a, b, d, e, g, i, ɨ, j, k, l, m, n, ŋ, o, p, r, s, t, u, w, y. No words begin with ɨ, and words underlyingly beginning with b, d, g and j are prenasalized and pronounced as [mb], [d], [ŋg] and [nj]. As explained in Section 2.8 of the Grammar, this prenasalization is marked orthographically, with the result that there are no words that begin with the letters b, g, or j, beginning instead with mb, ŋg and nj. Only one word – a loan word from the neighboring Adjora language – begins with d.A dictionary entry contains the following information:otar1.n.fire; paia.2.(euphemism), anger; kros. Yu munjenonana mamrara wakakkutak,yuwonana otar rorikakkutak: Youquiver in your boots whenever anyoneelse asks you for things but when yourown family asks you for anything, a firegets lit! (i.e. you get angry and beginshouting); Yu save guria i stap wantaimol narapela, tasol ol lain bilong yu i laikimwanem samting bilong yu, paia i savelait! (olsem yu save kros na bikmaus).3.torch, flashlight; tos.4.fever, bikpela hot long skin. Toto otarsumanŋa: Skin is burning up; Skin ihot nogut tru.Head wordin TayapWord class(part of speech)Translationinto EnglishTranslation intoTok PisinExamples toshow how theword is used incontextOnly unbound, freestanding words are listed in the dictionary. Tayap’s bound morphemes are discussed in the relevant sections of the Grammar. Tayap verbs are identified as transitive or intransitive. Verbs also commonly occur in serial verb constructions. Those that almost exclusively occur in such constructions are marked as such (see below; see also Chapter 8). Verbs appear in the dictionary alphabetized according to the form the verb stem takes when it is negated (See Section 5.2).
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements VII
  3. Contents XI
  4. Conventions and abbreviations XVIII
  5. 1. The Tayap language and its speakers 1
  6. 2. Phonology and orthography 27
  7. 3. Word classes 49
  8. 4. Noun phrases: Structure, modifiers, case marking and possession 105
  9. 5. Basic verb morphology 136
  10. 6. The formation of realis and irrealis verbs 163
  11. 7. Mood 200
  12. 8. Complex predicates 229
  13. 9. Simple and complex sentences 250
  14. Tayap Texts 290
  15. Tayap-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary 337
  16. English-Tayap finder list 455
  17. Appendix 1. English translation of Georg Höltker 1938. Eine fragmentarische Wörterliste der Gapún-Sprache Newguineas. Anthropos 33: 279–82 482
  18. Appendix 2. Two photographs of Gapun village taken in 1937 by Georg Höltker 487
  19. References 489
  20. Index 493
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512209-011

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements VII
  3. Contents XI
  4. Conventions and abbreviations XVIII
  5. 1. The Tayap language and its speakers 1
  6. 2. Phonology and orthography 27
  7. 3. Word classes 49
  8. 4. Noun phrases: Structure, modifiers, case marking and possession 105
  9. 5. Basic verb morphology 136
  10. 6. The formation of realis and irrealis verbs 163
  11. 7. Mood 200
  12. 8. Complex predicates 229
  13. 9. Simple and complex sentences 250
  14. Tayap Texts 290
  15. Tayap-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary 337
  16. English-Tayap finder list 455
  17. Appendix 1. English translation of Georg Höltker 1938. Eine fragmentarische Wörterliste der Gapún-Sprache Newguineas. Anthropos 33: 279–82 482
  18. Appendix 2. Two photographs of Gapun village taken in 1937 by Georg Höltker 487
  19. References 489
  20. Index 493
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