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This reference grammar is the first description of the endangered Oceanic language Daakaka. This language is spoken by about 1000 speakers on the island of Ambr
A Grammar of Kilmeri
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This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of f
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Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and synt
Susceptibility vs. Resistance
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The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable categories and those which resist transfer. Resistance is illustrated for the unattested emergence of
The polyfunctionality of 'still' expressions
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-06-28 - Publisher: Language Science Press

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Expressions from the semasiological domain of phasal polarity (ʻstillʼ, ʻalreadyʼ, etc.) tend to be highly polyfunctional, with their various uses often ext