A grammar of Atong / By Seino van Breugel.
| Author/creator | Breugel, Seino van |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014. |
| Description | xxxvii, 659 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, 1877-4083 ; Volume 5 Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; Volume 5. ^A1256599 |
| Contents | The Atong language and its speakers -- Phonology -- Word classes: an overview -- Verbs and verb/nouns -- Adjectives -- Nouns, the noun phrase and the nominal clump -- Kinship terms -- Deictic words -- Interrogatives -- Indefinite preforms -- The quantifier phrase, numerals and other quantifiers -- Classifiers -- Postpositions -- Discourse connectives -- Other word classes -- Sub-class-changing derivation -- Phrasal enclitics -- Semantic-role marking -- Pragmatic-role and specificity enclitics -- The predicate -- Derivational suffixes -- Predicate enclitics -- The clause, clause types and illocutionary force -- The factitive enclitic =wa , subordination and nominalization -- Goal-marked predicates -- Temporal-location and conditional clauses -- Concomitant-action clauses -- Adverbial and sequential clauses. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-653) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013040605 |
| ISBN | 9789004258921 (hardback : acid-free paper) |