A Grammar of Tukang Besi

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Walter de Gruyter, 1999 - Foreign Language Study - 576 pages

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Contents

Word classes
4
Subdialect areas on Wanci
11
Phonology and morphophonology 15
15
Vowel clusters
22
Vowel clusters interrupted by a glottal stop
23
Syntactic units and the clause
47
The term word
83
Features showing the verbalprecategorialnominal cline
88
Causative morphology
205
Properties of the objects of causative constructions
221
Applicative morphology
225
Intransitive verbs Properties of the applied object
260
Transitive verbs Properties of the applied object
261
Intransitive verbs properties of the second applied object
266
Other verbal morphology
271
The three passive forms and object suffixes compared
281

3
90
Defining characteristics of different verbal categories in Tukang Besi
91
6
105
Numerals from 1 9
107
Numbers above 9 selection only
109
7
112
Tukang besi pronominal forms
113
Demonstratives
137
Topographic demonstratives and associated verbs of motion
139
Modifying the head of an
144
Verb phrases
151
Auxiliaries and aspect marking
177
Serial verb constructions
181
Types of serial verb constructions in Tukang Besi
183
Morphological parameters of serial verb constructions
203
core and oblique phrases
303
Marking strategies on NPs
321
Possession and possessive constructions
337
Nonverbal and semiverbal clauses
353
Relative clauses
367
Complementation
389
Adverbials
409
Conjoining
421
Speech acts
447
Pivots and grammatical relations
461
Texts
491
Wordlist
533
Notes
555
Index
573
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