A Grammar of SemelaiCambridge University Press, 8 thg 4, 2004 - 493 trang Semelai is a previously undescribed and endangered Aslian (Mon-Khmer) language of the Malay Peninsula. This book - the first in-depth description of an Aslian language - provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Semelai. Semelai intertwines two types of morphological system: a concatenative system of prefixes, suffixes and a circumfix - acquired through extended contact with Malay - and a nonconcatenative system of prefixes and infixes (including infix reduplication), inherited from Mon-Khmer. There are distinctive word classes - Nominals, Verbs and Expressives - the latter iconic utterances which simultaneously provide information about the predicate and its arguments. Semelai has many derivational processes which change word class or affect transitivity, and it combines both head-marking and dependent-marking profiles. It also has a rich phonemic system of 20 vowels and 32 consonants. Nicole Kruspe's discussion is complemented with a generous number of illustrative examples and texts, creating a reference work that will be welcomed by descriptivists and typologists alike. |
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Maps | 1 |
Phonology and phonotactics | 32 |
Morphology | 61 |
Word classes | 94 |
The verb | 105 |
personal ignorative and demonstrative | 170 |
4 | 193 |
The noun phrase | 202 |
Basic clauses | 269 |
Complex clauses | 339 |
Expressives | 396 |
The quotative marker interjections and discourse clitics | 403 |
Texts | 420 |
Vocabulary | 448 |
References | 466 |
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Thuật ngữ và cụm từ thông dụng
2yot adverb affix allomorph argument Aslian languages aspectual AT:above AT:below attested Austroasiatic Bera child clitic coda copy COMP complement concatenated consonant constituent construction context deictic derived dǝl Diffloth discourse discussed dɔs enclitic epenthesis event existential clause express final syllable fish following example function husband imperative infix interrogative intransitive verbs irrealis Jakun jtek k"ləŋ kadeh kǝh kǝhn ki=gon kləŋ kmɔŋ kmpǝn knɔn lagi lexemes lexical lən locative preposition Malay marker Mon-Khmer Mon-Khmer languages monosyllabic morpheme morphological nasal NEG EXIST NEG:IMP negator nominal nominalisation noun occur onset Orang Asli penultimate syllable phonemes phonologically phrase position post-verbal predicate prefix proclitic pronominal proclitic pronouns QUOTE realised reduplication rɔm s.th sampay semantic Semelai sibling speaker stative swak swidden syllable coda syllable onset syntactic Temiar Temoq template third person tiger TO:spec tɔm transitive clause verbal vowel wife