Buch, Englisch, Band 240, 60 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, Band 240, 60 Seiten
Reihe: Languages of the World, Materials
ISBN: 978-3-89586-510-7
Verlag: LINCOM
This description is a salvage study of the grammar of this otherwise sketchly known language. The area of greatest complexity is the verb morphology, where extensive patterns of root mutation result in verb roots appearing in quite different guises in a range of morphosyntactic environments. The language also has a set of inflectional categories of verbs that is unusually large, as well as morphological marking that is morphotactically unusually complex for an Oceanic language. However, while this description focuses to a considerable extent on moprhology, the major syntactic patterns are also presented.