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A Grammar of Savosavo: 61
Author(s): Claudia Wegener (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- Publication Date: 15 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 416 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110289474
- ISBN-13: 9783110289473
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive description of Savosavo, a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language spoken by approximately 2,500 speakers on Savo Island, Solomon Islands. Based on primary field data recorded by the author, it provides an overview of all levels of grammar. In addition, a full chapter is dedicated to nominalization of verbs by means of one particular suffix, which occur in a number of constructions ranging from lexical to syntactic nominalization. The appendix provides glossed example texts and a list of lexemes.
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About the Author
Claudia Wegener, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
