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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 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives affixes Agent allophone amai ambitransitive verbs ana-no appear applicative construction applicative morphology applicative suffix Bajau base object Baubau Binongko cassava causee chapter child-3POSS coconut CORE 3SG core arguments CORE child CORE person Dative dialect ditransitive example existential clause forms friend-3POSS gemination genitive glottal stop grammatical iaku iko'o indexed infix instrumental intransitive island Jari kabali kadera Kaledupa kene kene-su language machete Malay marked marker mbea'e mbeaka morpheme mother-3POSS nasal No-wila nominalised nominative argument non-agentive non-nominative noun object agreement Object relative clause object suffixes oblique passive phonemes possessive suffixes Pragmatic focus prenasalised preposition pronominal pronouns reduplication refer Sabusaburengki sarong second applied object seen semantic role sentence serial verb construction serialisation speakers subcategorisation frame subject prefixes syllable syntactic Tagalog Theme/Patient Tindoi Tomea topicalised transitive verb Tukang Besi ungrammatical verbal vowel Wanci Wanse word wowine wunua
References to this book
Adjective Classes: A Cross-linguistic Typology R.M.W. Dixon,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald No preview available - 2006 |