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- Book Title
- A Grammar of Yélî Dnye
- Title
- A Grammar of Yélî Dnye
- Subtitle
- The Papuan Language of Rossel Island
- ISBN-10
- 3111358666
- EAN
- 9783111358666
- ISBN
- 9783111358666
- Genre
- Language & Reference
- Release Date
- 10/24/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- DE
- Item Height
- 230mm
- Subject Area
- Foreign Language Study, Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- Grammar of Yélî Dnye : the Papuan Language of Rossel Island
- Publisher
- DE Gruyter, Inc.
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Subject
- General, Oceanic & Australian Languages, Linguistics / General
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Series
- Pacific Linguistics [PL] Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Weight
- 37.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 617 Pages
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This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on the phoneme inventory, morphology, syntax and select semantic fields. Remarkable features include a 90 phoneme inventory including unique sounds, a morphology with thousands of non-compositional portmanteau elements, complex rules for negation, and extensive ergative syntax. Unusual patterns are also found in the organization of semantic fields, for example in partonymies of the body, taxonomies of the natural world, verbal semantics and kinship terms. The combination of linguistic 'rara' suggest that linguistic evolution under low contact can yield baroque and unusual patterns. The volume should be of special interest to linguists, typologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and researchers in Oceania and Melanesia. Endorsement: "This long-awaited grammar is a major contribution to Papuan and general linguistics, providing as it does by far the most comprehensive and accurate grammatical description of a language that has already assumed a position as one of the world's most complicated. Hitherto, the most extensive grammatical description of the language has been the survey-like Henderson (1995), and while Levinson explicitly acknowledges his debt to this earlier grammar and to unpublished work by Henderson, his own detailed grammar clearly takes the level of description and analysis of the language to a completely new level. In particular, Levinson's grammar makes clear precisely to what extent and in what ways the language's morphology is complex beyond even what most studies on morphologically complex languages envisage. In addition, it provides a much more detailed account of the language's syntax, based on a judicious combination of corpus attestation and careful elicitation (incl. using the kits developed by Levinson's group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics). The grammar thus not only fills a major lacuna in our knowledge of the non-Austronesian languages of the New Guinea area, but also provides grist for future studies on the implications of the language's complexities."Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Publisher
DE Gruyter, Inc.
ISBN-10
3111358666
ISBN-13
9783111358666
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12062736101
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Number of Pages
617 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Grammar of Yélî Dnye : the Papuan Language of Rossel Island
Publication Year
2023
Subject
General, Oceanic & Australian Languages, Linguistics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Foreign Language Study, Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Pacific Linguistics [PL] Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
37.2 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Series Volume Number
666
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
499.12
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Lc Classification Number
Pl6621.Y35
Copyright Date
2022
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