MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011507614
003 DLC
005 20120303084537.0
008 120216s2011 acab b 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)704893993
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042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aPL6621.B34$bS74 2011
082 04 $a499.12$222
100 1 $aStebbins, Tonya N.
245 10 $aMali (Baining) grammar :$ba language of the East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea /$cTonya N. Stebbins.
260 $aCanberra :$bPacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University,$c2011.
300 $axxi, 415 p. :$bmaps ;$c25 cm.
490 0 $aPacific linguistics ;$v623
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 407-410) and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. Introduction : the language and it's speakers -- ch. 2. Typological overview -- ch. 3. Phonetics and phonology -- ch. 4. Basic syntactic categories and the tense marking system -- ch. 5. Word classes -- ch. 6. Derivation and valency changing -- ch. 7. Prepositions and associated constructions -- ch. 8. Noun classes and gender in Mali -- ch. 9. Number -- ch. 10. The noun phrase -- ch. 11. Possessive phrases -- ch. 12. Directionals -- ch. 13. Structure of the predicate -- ch. 14. Adverbs and discourse markers -- ch. 15. Status and illocutionary force -- ch. 16. Clause linkage -- ch. 17. Coordination and subordination -- ch. 18. Discourse organisation I -- ch. 19. Discourse organisation II -- ch. 20. Lexical expansion.
520 3 $aMali (2,200 speakers) is a Papuan language spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province Papua New Guinea. It is a member of the Baining language family. The family is comprised of five languages: Kaket, Mali, Simbali, Ura and Kairak. Baining people share a common non-Austronesian ancestral language and similar cultural practices (such as fire dances). An interesting feature of these languages is that they show a great deal of influence from their early Austronesian neighbors. As detailed in the grammar, Mali has characteristics of both the Western Oceanic branch of Austronesian and Trans New Guinea. This is the first comprehensive grammar for a language from the family and provides a framework for further comparative and descriptive research in the region. The grammar was produced in cooperation with members of the Mali (Baining) community and is being published alongside a dictionary and text collection (also available from Pacific Linguistics).
650 0 $aBaining language$xGrammar.
650 0 $aBaining (Papua New Guinean people)$xLanguages.
653 $aAustralian
710 2 $aAustralian National University.$bPacific Linguistics.
830 0 $aPacific linguistics ;$v623.$x1448-8310