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A grammar of Mauwake (Record no. 19992)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field OTLid0000629
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field MnU
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20201105133347.0
006 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--ADDITIONAL MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783946234272
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MnU
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency MnU
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number P51
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Berghäll, Liisa
Relator term 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 Relying on other existing published and unpublished grammars, the author shows how the language is similar to, or different from, related TNG languages especially in the Madang province.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
Source of description note Description based on print resource
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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
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