Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field LinguistsThis book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of the world's many underdocumented languages. It offers readers who work through it one possible outline for a grammatical description, with many questions designed to help them address the key topics; and appendices offer guidance on text and elicited data, and on sample reference grammars which readers might wish to consult. This will be a valuable resource to anyone engaged in linguistic fieldwork. |
Contents
Demographic and ethnographic information | 13 |
12 Ethnology | 14 |
14 Genetic affiliation | 15 |
17 Dialects | 18 |
Morphological typology | 20 |
21 Traditional morphological typology | 27 |
22 Morphological processes | 29 |
23 Headdependent marking | 31 |
72 Functional explanations for groupings of S A and P | 139 |
73 Split systems | 144 |
74 Syntactic ergativity | 162 |
75 Summary | 166 |
Voice and valence adjusting operations | 169 |
80 Valence and predicate calculus | 174 |
81 Valence increasing operations | 175 |
82 Valence decreasing operations | 196 |
Grammatical categories | 32 |
31 Nouns | 33 |
32 Verbs | 47 |
33 Modifiers | 63 |
34 Adverbs | 69 |
Constituent order typology | 71 |
41 Constituent order in main clauses | 76 |
42 Verb phrase | 84 |
43 Noun phrase | 86 |
45 Comparatives | 88 |
46 Question particles and question words | 89 |
47 Summary | 90 |
Noun and nounphrase operations | 92 |
52 Denominalization | 94 |
53 Number | 96 |
54 Case | 100 |
55 Articles determiners and demonstratives | 102 |
56 Possessors | 104 |
57 Class including gender | 107 |
58 Diminutionaugmentation | 109 |
Predicate nominals and related constructions | 111 |
61 Predicate nominals | 114 |
62 Predicate adjectives attributive clauses | 120 |
63 Predicate locatives | 121 |
64 Existentials | 123 |
65 Possessive clauses | 126 |
66 Summary of predicate nominal and EPL relationships | 127 |
Grammatical relations | 129 |
71 Systems for grouping S A and P | 133 |
Other verb and verbphrase operations | 223 |
92 Compounding including incorporation | 231 |
93 Tenseaspectmode | 233 |
94 Locationdirection | 248 |
95 Participant reference | 250 |
96 Evidentiality validationality and mirativity | 251 |
97 Miscellaneous | 257 |
Pragmatically marked structures | 261 |
101 The morphosyntax of focus contrast and topicalization | 271 |
102 Negation | 282 |
103 Nondeclarative speech acts | 294 |
Clause combinations | 306 |
111 Serial verbs | 307 |
112 Complement clauses | 313 |
113 Adverbial clauses | 316 |
114 Clause chaining medial clauses and switch reference | 321 |
115 Relative clauses | 325 |
116 Coordination | 336 |
Conclusions the language in use | 342 |
121 Continuity cohesion and discontinuity | 343 |
122 Genres | 356 |
123 Miscellaneous and conclusions | 362 |
Elicited and text data | 366 |
Sample reference grammars | 372 |
Notes | 376 |
References | 382 |
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