The Paamese Language of VanuatuDepartment of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1982 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 287 pages |
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a-na a-ni adjuncts age-a alata allomorph Are'are ba'ita Basiana bi'i Bislama clause clitic compound constructions deictic described direct object elua expressed fa-na father PsP-PrS(1s focal pronoun form class FPr(ls Gavutu gila grammar Guinea linguistics Hardbound inau incl intr.vb intransitive iri-a ISBN kaie kaile kwa'i-a Kwaio la'u languages of Indonesia leka LOC-PrS(Ind ma'a ma'a a-gu marked marker Materials in languages me'e mola molatin morpheme morphologically ngai ngaia nigi no'o no'o-na nominal phrase non-syllabic vowels NP's object NP oblique object Oceanic languages Paama Paamese Papers particle pattern Pawley person singular phonological possessive nominal prefix pronoun object PsP-PrS(ls PstVbP reduplication reference relationship Reprinted 1971 rule see-TrS-Pro(3s semantic slot speaker SRP(ls SRP(lte stative verbs subject-referencing pronoun suff.n suri-a syllable syntactic ta'a te'e to'oru tr.vb transitive suffix transitive verb Ubuni Underlying Form verb phrase verb root verbal vowel W.A.L. Stokhof wane