Woleaian Reference Grammar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910324955803321
• Autore: Sohn Ho-min
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Honolulu : , : University of Hawaii Press, , 1975; ©1975
• ISBN: 0-8248-8224-5; 0-8248-8225-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 pages)
• Collana: PALI Language Texts--Micronesia Series
• Disciplina: 499/.5
• Soggetti: Woleaian language - Grammar
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Woleaian Reference Grammar -- Woleaian Reference Grammar -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 WOLEAI ATOLL -- 0.2 FOREIGN INFLUENCE -- 0.3 THE WOLEAIAN LANGUAGE -- 0.4 DIALECTS -- 0.5 PRESENT WORK -- 1 Speech Sounds -- 1.1 GRAMMAR AND SPEECH SOUNDS -- 1.2 SPEECH ORGANS -- 1.3 CRITERIA OF SOUND CLASSIFICATION -- 1.4 WOLEAIAN CONSONANTS -- 1.4.1 Simple Consonants -- 1.4.2 Double Consonants -- 1.5 WOLEAIAN VOWELS -- 1.5.1 Simple Vowels -- 1.5.2 Double Vowels -- 1.5.3 Word-final Vowels -- Note to Linguists -- 1.6 SEMI-VOWELS w AND y -- 1.7 SOUND ALTERNATIONS -- 1.7.1 Base forms, Sound Environment and Alternation -- 1.7.2 Final Vowel Alternations -- 1.7.3 Vowel Lengthening -- 1.7.4 a between High Vowels -- 1.7.5 a before a Low Vowel -- 1.7.6 Semivowel Alternations -- Note to Linguists -- 1.8 SOUND COMBINATIONS -- 1.9 PITCHES AND INTONATION CONTOURS -- 2 Orthography -- 2.1 SPEECH AND WRITING -- 2.2 SOUND-LETTER CORRESPONDENCE -- 2.3 THE ALPHABET -- 2.4 SPELLING CONVENTIONS -- 3 Word Classification -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 THE WORD -- 3.3 PARTS OF SPEECH -- 3.4 FULL WORDS AND PARTICLES -- 3.5 NOUNS -- 3.5.1 Subclassification -- 3.5.2 Numeral Classifiers -- 3.5.3 Enumerative Counters -- 3.5.4 Possessive Classifiers -- 3.5.5 Locational Nouns -- 3.5.6 Inalienable Nouns -- 3.5.7 Proper Nouns -- 3.5.8 Common Nouns -- 3.6 PRONOUNS -- ; 3.6.1 Pronominal Function -- 3.6.1 Personal Pronouns -- 3.6.3 Question Pronouns -- 3.6.4 The Defective Pronouns i- and mel-. -- 3.6.5 The Locative Pronoun iyang -- 3.7 VERBS -- 3.7.1 Definition and Classification -- 3.7.2 Intransitive Verbs -- 3.7.3 Neutral Verbs -- 3.7.4 Transitive Verbs -- 3.8 NUMERALS -- 3.9 DEMONSTRATIVES -- 3.10 ASPECTS -- 3.11 ADVERBS -- 3.12 DIRECTIONALS -- 3.13 SUBJECTIVES -- 3.14 PREPOSITIONS -- 3.15 CONJUNCTIONS -- 4 Word Formation -- 4.1 MECHANISMS OF WORD FORMATION.; 4.1.1 Stem, Derivation and Inflection -- 4.1.2 Compounding, Affixation, and Reduplication -- 4.1.3 Nature of Complex Stems -- 4.2 INFLECTIONAL PARADIGMS OF WOLEAIAN -- 4.2.1 Possessive Suffixes -- 4.2.2 Object Suffixes -- 4.2.3 Progressive Action -- 4.2.4 Plural Marking for Nouns -- 4.3 NOUN FORMATION -- 4.3.1 Nouns of Complex Stem -- 4.3.2 Derivative Nouns -- 4.4 VERB FORMATION -- 4.4.1 Intransitive Verbs -- 4.4.2 Neutral Verbs -- 4.4.3 Transitive Verbs -- 4.5 FORMAL RELATIONS AMONG VERBS -- 4.5.1 Simple-stem Transitive Verbs and Related Words -- 4.5.2 Thematic-stem Transitive Verbs and Related Words -- 4.5.3 Causative Transitive Verbs and Related Words -- 4.5.4 Possessive Transitive Verbs and Related Words -- 5 Sentence Patterns -- 5.1 MAJOR AND MINOR SENTENCES -- 5.1.1 Definition -- 5.1.2 Simple and Complex Major Sentences -- 5.1.3 Minor Sentences -- 5.1.4 Grammatical Functions -- 5.2 EQUATIONAL AND PREDICATIVE SENTENCES -- 5.2.1 Criteria of Distinction -- 5.2.2 Equational Sentences -- 5.2.3 Predicative Sentences and the Function of Subjectives -- 5.3 STATEMENT, QUESTION, COMMAND, EMPHASIS, TOPIC, AND EXCLAMATION -- 5.3.1 Statement and Question -- 5.3.2 Command -- 5.3.3 Emphasis and Topic -- 5.3.4 Exclamation -- 6 Noun Phrases -- 6.1 FUNCTION AND KIND -- 6.2 INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF SIMPLE NOUN PHRASES -- 6.3 COMPLEX NOUN PHRASES -- 6.4 NOMINAL PARTICLES -- 6.5 BARE-NOMINAL CONSTRUCTIONS -- 6.6 ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 6.7 DEMONSTRATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 6.7.1 Nature and Function of Demonstratives -- 6.7.2 Spatial, Temporal, and Mental Reference -- 6.7.3 Demonstrative Compounds -- 6.7.4 Relation between Demonstrative and Other Constructions -- 6.8 ATTRIBUTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 6.8.1 Structure -- 6.8.2 Alienable and Inalienable Possession -- 6.8.3 Meanings of Attributive Relations -- 6.9 NUMERAL CONSTRUCTIONS -- 6.9.1 Structure.; 6.9.2 Numeral Classification -- 6.9.3 Ordinal Expressions -- 7 Verb Phrases -- 7.1 INTERNAL STRUCTURE -- 7.2 USES OF ASPECTS -- 7.2.1 Aspectual Phenomena and Tense -- 7.2.2 Positive Aspects be, bel, sa -- 7.2.3 Negative Aspects ta, tai, taai, teit, tewai, tewaai, tewait, te -- 7.3 USES OF ADVERBS -- 7.3.1 Subclasses of Verbal Adverbs -- 7.3.2 Pre-verb Adverbs -- 7.3.3 Post-verb Adverbs (non-particle) -- 7.3.4 Post-verb Adverbs (particle) -- 7.4 DIRECTIONALS -- 7.4.1 Meanings of Directionals -- 7.4.2 Uses of Directionals -- 7.5 VERB CONSTRUCTIONS -- 7.5.1 Introduction -- 7.5.2 Intransitive Constructions -- 7.5.3 Neutral Constructions -- 7.5.4 Transitive Constructions -- 7.5.5 Causative Constructions -- 7.5.6 Nominal-type Constructions -- 8 Adjuncts -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 TIME WORD EXPRESSIONS -- 8.3 LOCATIVE EXPRESSIONS -- 8.3.1 Structure -- 8.3.2 Simple Locative Constructions -- 8.3.3 Locational Noun Constructions -- 8.3.4 The Locative Pronoun iyang -- 8.4 be CONSTRUCTIONS -- 8.5 VERBAL PREPOSITIONS -- 9 Complex Sentences -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 RELATIVE CLAUSE FORMATION -- 9.2.1 Structure of Relative Constructions -- 9.2.2 Relational Demonstratives and le -- 9.2.3 Dual Function of the Antecedent -- 9.2.4 Multiple Relative Constructions -- 9.3 CONJUNCTIVE SENTENCE FORMATION -- 9.4 FUNCTIONAL CLAUSE ; FORMATION -- 9.5 NOMINAL CLAUSE FORMATION.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ho-Min Sohn is professor emeritus of Korean language and linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.