A grammar of Atong / By Seino van Breugel.

Author/creator Breugel, Seino van
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Descriptionxxxvii, 659 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

SeriesBrill'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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 649-653) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013040605
ISBN9789004258921 (hardback : acid-free paper)