A Grammar of Tukang Besi

Mark Donohue

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110161885
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110805543
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Conventions
• Table of Contents
• List of maps, figures and tables
• Plates
• Map 1: The Tukang Besi islands in Indonesia
• Map 2: Wanci
• Map 3: The Tukang Besi islands
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 Setting
• 1.2 The region
• 1.3 The language
• 1.4 Sources for this study
• 1.5 Data-gathering procedures
• 2. Phonology and morphophonology
• 2.1 The phonemes
• 2.2 Extra-phonemic issues
• 2.3 Syllable level processes
• 2.4 Variable phonetic processes
• 2.5 Processes involving nasals
• 2.6 Orthographic issues
• 3. Syntactic units and the clause
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Categories and terms
• 3.3 Guide to Tukang Besi grammatical forms
• 3.4 Verbal clauses
• 3.5 Non-verbal clauses
• 3.6 Other clause types
• 3.7 Pragmatically determined variations in clause structure
• 3.8 Articles and case marking
• 3.9 A short note on interclausal relations
• 3.10 The status and structure of phrases in the clause
• 3.11 The layers of the clause: core and oblique arguments
• 3.12 Summary
• 4. Word classes
• 4.1 The term ‘word’
• 4.2 Word classes and the problem of overlap
• 4.3 Open word classes
• 4.4 Nouns
• 4.5 Verbs and adjectives
• 4.6 Closed word classes
• 4.7 A note on ‘derivational’ and ‘inflectional’ categories
• 5. Pronouns
• 5.1 Personal pronouns
• 5.2 Use of the free forms
• 5.3 Affixed pronominal forms
• 5.4 Subject prefixes
• 5.5 Possessive suffixes
• 5.6 Scope of possessive antecedency
• 5.7 Object agreement
• 5.8 Dative object agreement
• 6. Demonstratives
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Semantic differences: set one
• 6.3 Semantic differences: set two
• 6.4 Use of the different demonstrative forms
• 6.5 Use of the demonstratives
• 6.6 The use of the demonstratives in discourse tracking
• 7. Verb phrases
• 7.1 Verb phrases
• 7.2 Subject prefixes
• 7.3 Subject infix -[um]-
• 7.4 Possessive marking on adjectives
• 7.5 Irregularities in subject marking
• 7.6 Object suffixes
• 7.7 External possession
• 7.8 Object incorporation
• 7.9 Aspect and auxiliaries
• 7.10 Adverbs
• 8. Serial verb constructions
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Non-contiguous serialisation
• 8.3 Contiguous serialisaton
• 8.4 Summary of morphosyntactic differences
• 8.5 Serial verbs and other grammatical categories
• 9. Causative morphology
• 9.1 Causative mophology: introduction
• 9.2 Factitive hoko-
• 9.3 Causative pa-
• 9.4 Requestive hepe-
• 9.5 Causatives: combinations
• 9.6 Causatives and ditransitive verbs
• 9.7 Causatives: summary
• 10. Applicative morphology
• 10.1 Applicatives: Introduction
• 10.2 Comitative applicative suffix -ngkene
• 10.3 General applicative suffix -ako
• 10.4 Locative applicative ‘suffix complex’ -(VC)i
• 10.5 Double applicatives
• 10.6 Applicatives and ditransitive verbs
• 10.7 Applicatives: summary
• 10.8 Combining properties and the question of symmetry or asymmetry
• 11. Other verbal morphology
• 11.1 Valency reducing affixes
• 11.2 Passive prefixes
• 11.3 Valency-neutral prefixes
• 11.4 Valency-announcing prefixes
• 11.5 Causative-applicative combinations
• 11.6 Combinations with reciprocals
• 11.7 Combinations with passives
• 11.8 Reduplication
• 11.9 The position of verbal morphology
• 12. Noun phrases: core and oblique phrases
• 12.1 Noun Phrase structure and the Case Phrase
• 12.2 KPs with an NP headed in the N position
• 12.3 NPs not headed in the N position
• 12.4 Appositional phrases
• 12.5 Names
• 12.6 Nominalising morphology: - ’a and - ’o
• 12.7 Structure of the prepostional phrase
• 12.8 Semantic range of the different prepostions
• 12.9 Functions of the oblique phrase
• 12.10 General oblique: oblique article i/di
• 12.11 Individual prepositions
• 12.12 Complex prepositions
• 12.13 Not-quite prepositions: ako, pake and kene
• 13. Possession and possessive constructions
• 13.1 Introduction
• 13.2 Phrasal possession
• 13.3 Clausal possession
• 13.4 Summary
• 14. Non-verbal and semi-verbal clauses
• 14.1 Introduction
• 14.2 Equative clauses
• 14.3 Oblique Predicate clauses
• 14.4 Presentative clauses
• 14.5 Numerical clauses
• 14.6 Comparative clauses
• 14.7 Exclamatory clauses
• 14.8 Existential clauses
• 14.9 Negative existential clauses
• 15. Relative clauses
• 15.1 Introduction
• 15.2 Aspect and polarity in relative clauses
• 15.3 Multiple relative clauses
• 15.4 Subject relative clauses
• 15.5 Instrumental relative clauses
• 15.6 Object relative clauses
• 15.7 Internal relative clauses
• 15.8 Non-verbal modification: relative phrases
• 16. Complementation
• 16.1 Types of complementation in Tukang Besi
• 16.2 Types of complement-taking predicates
• 16.3 Complementisers
• 16.4 Verbs of desire
• 16.5 Verbs of mental perception
• 16.6 Verbs of decision
• 16.7 Physical perception complements
• 16.8 Verbs of manipulation
• 16.9 Discourse complements
• 17. Adverbials
• 17.1 Adverbial clauses
• 17.2 Clauses of reason
• 17.3 Adverbial clauses of time
• 17.4 Conditional ara, karo
• 17.5 Concessional bisa
• 17.6 Possessed floaters: karama- and pe’esa-
• 18. Conjoining
• 18.1 Levels of coordination
• 18.2 Clauses joined without a conjunction
• 18.3 Clauses joined with a conjunction
• 18.4 Conjoining Vs
• 18.5 Conjoining NPs
• 18.6 ‘Floating’ conjuncts
• 18.7 Reciprocal constructions
• 19. Speech acts
• 19.1 Speech acts: introduction
• 19.2 Negation
• 19.3 Interrogatives, questions and answers
• 19.4 Imperative verbforms and commands
• 19.5 Imprecatives and insulting
• 19.6 Suggestions and hortatives
• 19.7 Summonses and vocatives
• 19.8 Requests and performatives
• 19.9 Exclamatory sentences and surprise
• 19.10 Sentence-final particles
• 20. Pivots and grammatical relations
• 20.1 Introduction: kinds of pivots
• 20.2 Pivots in Tukang Besi
• 20.3 [S,A] and [O] pivots
• 20.4 Nominative pivots
• 20.5 Nominative pivots with [S,O] constraint
• 20.6 Nominative pivot with [Theme/Patient] constraint
• 20.7 Non-nominative pivot
• 20.8 [S,O] pivot
• 20.9 Agent pivots
• 20.10 Instrumental pivots
• 20.11 Mixed pivot: existential clauses
• 20.12 Pivotless constructions
• 20.13 Grammatical categories
• 20.14 Summary
• Appendix: Texts
• 1 Wa Iambo
• 2 Pada
• 3 Wa Sabusaburengki
• 4 Tukang Besi
• 5 La Kohokoho kene La Kandokendoke (The Heron and the Monkey)
• 6 La Kolokolopua ke La Kandokendoke (The Tortoise and the Monkey)
• 7 Te Daoa (The Market)
• Wordlist
• Notes
• References
• Index