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A Grammar of Savosavo
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Claudia Wegener
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English
Published/Copyright:
2012
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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.
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Claudia Wegener, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
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Contents
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Chapter 1. The language and its speakers
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Chapter 2. Phonology
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Chapter 3. Word formation
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Chapter 4. Word classes and phrase types
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Chapter 5. Noun phrases
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Chapter 6. The verb complex
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Chapter 7. Independent basic clauses
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Chapter 8. Complex clauses
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Chapter 9. Nominalization with -ghu ‘NMLZ’
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Appendix A. Example texts
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Appendix B. List of lexemes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Linguists working in the Areas of Typology, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Contact and Historical Linguistics in Melanesia.
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