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- Book Title
- A Sketch Grammar of Kopar
- Publication Name
- Sketch Grammar of Kopar : a Language of New Guinea
- Title
- A Sketch Grammar of Kopar
- Subtitle
- A Language of New Guinea
- ISBN-10
- 3111357546
- EAN
- 9783111357546
- ISBN
- 9783111357546
- Publisher
- DE Gruyter, Inc.
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 24/10/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- DE
- Item Height
- 230mm
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Item Weight
- 19.5 Oz
- Genre
- Language & Reference
- Series
- Pacific Linguistics [PL] Ser.
- Subject Area
- Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Subject
- Linguistics / Morphology, Oceanic & Australian Languages, Linguistics / General
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 265 Pages
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Kopar is a very moribund, close to extinct, language spoken in three villages at the mouth of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. This is the only description of the language available. It also discusses areas where rapid language shift is affecting the structure of Kopar. Although the period of fieldwork was necessarily short, this book provides as comprehensive a description as possible of the grammatical structure of this complex and fascinating language. It is quite thorough and detailed and goes well beyond what is normally considered a sketch grammar. It covers all the phenomena essential to description and comparison and gives clear, typologically sound definitions and explanations. The grammar is written with the research interests of language typologists and comparative grammarians foremost in mind. Typologically, Kopar can be described as a split ergative, polysynthetic language. The language lacks nominal case marking so ergativity or lack thereof is signaled by verbal agreement affixes. Tenses and moods which describe as yet unrealized events, like future and imperative, pattern accusatively for agreement affixes, while those express realized events, like past and present, pattern ergatively. In addition, the ergative case schema is overlaid by a direct-inverse inflectional schema determined by a person hierarchy, a feature Kopar shares with other languages in its Lower Sepik family. As a polysynthetic language, incorporation of sentential elements like temporals, locationals, adverbials and verbals is extensive, though noun incorporation is not. Sadly, this work is all the documentation we will likely ever have of Kopar, a language of potentially very high theoretical interest, given its rare typological profile. It will certainly be of interest to language typologists and comparative grammarians, and anyone who wants to explore the range of language variation
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Publisher
DE Gruyter, Inc.
ISBN-10
3111357546
ISBN-13
9783111357546
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19062638897
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Number of Pages
265 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Sketch Grammar of Kopar : a Language of New Guinea
Publication Year
2023
Subject
Linguistics / Morphology, Oceanic & Australian Languages, Linguistics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Pacific Linguistics [PL] Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
19.5 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Series Volume Number
667
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
499.12
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Lc Classification Number
Pl6621
Copyright Date
2022
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