A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap : : The Life and Death of a Papuan Language / / Don Kulick, Angela Terrill.
Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. Fewer than fifty speakers actively command it today. B...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Anno di pubblicazione: | 2019 |
| Lingua: | English |
| Serie: | Pacific Linguistics [PL] ,
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Sommario:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Conventions and abbreviations
- 1. The Tayap language and its speakers
- 2. Phonology and orthography
- 3. Word classes
- 4. Noun phrases: Structure, modifiers, case marking and possession
- 5. Basic verb morphology
- 6. The formation of realis and irrealis verbs
- 7. Mood
- 8. Complex predicates
- 9. Simple and complex sentences
- Tayap Texts
- Tayap-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary
- English-Tayap finder list
- Appendix 1. English translation of Georg Höltker 1938. Eine fragmentarische Wörterliste der Gapún-Sprache Newguineas. Anthropos 33: 279–82
- Appendix 2. Two photographs of Gapun village taken in 1937 by Georg Höltker
- References
- Index