Hua : A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
John. Haiman
Bok Engelsk 1980 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 1980.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (608 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - HUA: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; HUA, A PAPUAN LANGUAGE OF THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; PART I: PHONOLOGY; 0. The phoneme inventory; 1 Rules which create unmarked syllables; 2 Other contact rules; 3. Conjugation; 4. Suprasegmentals; 5. Summary and conclusions: the distinctive features in Hua; PART II: MORPHOLOGY; 6. The parts of speech: some morphological definitions; 7. Verb complexes; 8. Noun complexes; 9. Prenominal qualifiers. - 10. Miscellaneous parts of speech11. Interrogative words; 12. Syntactic definitions of the parts, of speech; 13. Derivational morphology; PART III: SYNTAX; A NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION IN THIS AND SUBSEQUENT SECTIONS; 14. Introduction: word order and constituency; 15. Transitivity; 16. Agreement phenomena; 17. Asymmetrical clause coordination: medial clauses; 18. Symmetrical coordination; 19. Modality; 20. Discourse; PART IV: TEXTS; 21. Hua oral literature; APPENDIX: THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE; 22. Hua in its multilingual context; REFERENCES. - There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study of such a language, Hua. The chief typological peculiarity of Hua is the existence of a 'medial verb'construction used to conjoin clauses in compound and complex sentences. Hua also shows a fundamental morphological distinction between coordinate and subordinate medial clauses, the latter are not 'ten
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| ISBN | 9027230048
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