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A grammar of Kalamang
The Papuan language of the Karas Islands Visser, Eline
2020
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A grammar of Kalamang
The Papuan language of the Karas Islands
ELINE VISSER
CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE | LUND UNIVERSITY
A grammar of Kalamang
The Papuan language of the Karas Islands
A grammar of Kalamang
The Papuan language of the Karas Islands
by Eline Visser
Thesis for the degree of Philosophy Doctor
Thesis supervisors: Dr. Niclas Burenhult, Dr. Harald Hammarström, Dr. Arthur Holmer
Opponent: Prof. Birgit Hellwig
To be presented, with the permission of Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology of Lund University, for public criticism in LUX C:121 on Friday, the 29th of January 2020 at 10:15.
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LUND UNIVERSITY
Centre for Languages and Literature Box 201
SE–221 00 LUND Sweden
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Eline Visser
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DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Date of disputation
2021-01-29
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Title and subtitle
A grammar of Kalamang: The Papuan language of the Karas Islands
Abstract
This thesis is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of In- donesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is a first comprehensive grammar of a Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on 11 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019.
This grammar covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure. More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful.
Kalamang has several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress, minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the noun and verb – as important domains of attachment.
This grammar is accompanied by a an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural material and a dictionary with 3800 lemmas, and serves as a document of one of the world’s many endangered languages.
Key words
language, linguistics, language documentation, descriptive linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, Papuan languages, Indonesian languages
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DDC 415
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English
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A grammar of Kalamang
The Papuan language of the Karas Islands
by Eline Visser
Thesis for the degree of Philosophy Doctor
Thesis supervisors: Dr. Niclas Burenhult, Dr. Harald Hammarström, Dr. Arthur Holmer
Opponent: Prof. Birgit Hellwig
To be presented, with the permission of Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology of Lund University, for public criticism in LUX C:121 on Friday, the 29th of January 2020 at 10:15.
A doctoral thesis at a university in Sweden takes either the form of a single, cohesive research study (monograph) or a summary of research pa- pers (compilation thesis), which the doctoral student has written alone or together with one or several other author(s). This thesis is a monograph.
Cover art by Pasman Projects: Kalamangsontum sikolatumtumara kometkomet and Beladarpasbon Moktar esunbon.
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