A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap
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A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap

The Life and Death of a Papuan Language

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  2. English
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A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap

The Life and Death of a Papuan Language

About this book

Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. Fewer than fifty speakers actively command it today.

Based on linguistic anthropological work conducted over the course of thirty years, this book describes the grammar of the language, detailing its phonology, morphology and syntax. It devotes particular attention to verbs, which are the most elaborated area of the grammar, and which are complex, fusional and massively suppletive.The book also provides a full Tayap-English-Tok Pisin dictionary.

A particularly innovative contribution is the detailed discussions of how Tayap''s grammar is dissolving in the language of young speakers. The book exemplifies how the complex structures in fluent speakers' Tayap are reduced or reanalyzed by younger speakers.

This grammar and dictionary should therefore be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the mechanics of how languages disappear. The fact that it is the sole documentation of this unique Papuan language should also make it of interest to areal specialists and language typologists.

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Yes, you can access A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap by Don Kulick,Angela Terrill in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Langues et linguistique & Langues. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781501525520
eBook ISBN
9781501512209
Edition
1
Topic
Langues et linguistique
Subtopic
Langues

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Conventions and abbreviations
  4. 1. The Tayap language and its speakers
  5. 2. Phonology and orthography
  6. 3. Word classes
  7. 4. Noun phrases: Structure, modifiers, case marking and possession
  8. 5. Basic verb morphology
  9. 6. The formation of realis and irrealis verbs
  10. 7. Mood
  11. 8. Complex predicates
  12. 9. Simple and complex sentences
  13. Tayap Texts
  14. Tayap-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary
  15. English-Tayap finder list
  16. Appendix 1. English translation of Georg Höltker 1938. Eine fragmentarische Wörterliste der GapĂșn-Sprache Newguineas. Anthropos 33: 279–82
  17. Appendix 2. Two photographs of Gapun village taken in 1937 by Georg Höltker
  18. References
  19. Index