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03168nam a2200349 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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OTLid0000629 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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MnU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20201105133347.0 |
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m o d s |
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181014s2015 mnu o 0 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
| International Standard Book Number |
9783946234272 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
| Original cataloging agency |
MnU |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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MnU |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
| Classification number |
P51 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
| Personal name |
Berghäll, Liisa |
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author |
| 245 02 - TITLE STATEMENT |
| Title |
A grammar of Mauwake |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Liisa Berghäll |
| 264 #2 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Open Textbook Library |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Language Science Press |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
| Extent |
1 online resource |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
| Series statement |
Open textbook library. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
| Formatted contents note |
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Phonology: a brief overview -- Chapter 3: Morphology -- Chapter 4: Phrase level syntax -- Chapter 5: Clause -- Chapter 6: Functional domains -- Chapter 7: Sentence types -- Chapter 8: Clause combinations -- Chapter 9: Theme, topic, and focus |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
| Summary, etc. |
This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length treatment of the Mauwake language and the only published grammar of the Kumil subgroup to date. Relying on other existing published and unpublished grammars, the author shows how the language is similar to, or different from, related TNG languages especially in the Madang province. The grammar gives a brief introduction to the Mauwake people, their environment and their culture. Although the book mainly covers morphology and syntax, it also includes ashort treatment of the phonological system and the orthography. The description of the grammatical units proceeds from the words/morphology to the phrases, clauses, sentence types and clause combinations. The chapter on functional domains is the only one where the organization is based on meaning/function rather than structure. The longest chapter in the book is on morphology, with verbs taking the central stage. The final chapter deals with the pragmatic functions theme, topic and focus. 13 texts by native speakers, mostly recorded and transcribed but some originally written, are included in the Appendix with morpheme-by-morpheme glosses and a free translation. The theoretical approach used is that of Basic Linguistic Theory. Language typologists and professional Papuanist linguists are naturally one target audience for the grammar. But also two other possible, and important, audiences influenced especially the style the writing: well educated Mauwake speakers interested in their language, and those other Papua New Guineans who have some basic training in linguistics and are keen to explore their own languages. |
| 542 1# - INFORMATION RELATING TO COPYRIGHT STATUS |
| Copyright statement |
Attribution |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
| Language note |
In English. |
| 588 0# - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE |
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Description based on print resource |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Language and languages |
| Form subdivision |
Textbooks |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Open Textbook Library |
| Relator term |
distributor |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/629">https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/629</a> |
| Public note |
Access online version |