Koromu Kesawai: Grammar and Information Structure of a New Guinea Language (Pacific Linguistics [Pl])

This book is a grammatical description of Koromu (or Kesawai), an endangered and previously undescribed language in Papua New Guinea's Ramu Valley. Koromu belongs to the Madang subgroup of the putative Trans New Guinea family. The grammar covers the structures of the language, with an emphasis on information structure. Geographic, linguistic, social and historical setting are described as well as phonology and morphophonology. The book examines the morphosyntactic structures of the language, covering basic clause structure, word classes, phrase structures and structures of spatial reference, verbal morphology, serial verb constructions, experiencer object constructions and the various constructions of clause combining (clause chaining, complement clauses, adverbial and relative clauses). Chapters also deal with noun phrase (non)realisation and morphological signaling of prominence and show how links and tails are encoded grammatically. Appendices contain texts and a wordlist. Este libro es una descripción gramatical del koromu (o kesawai), una lengua en peligro de extinción y no descrita anteriormente en el valle del Ramu, en Papúa Nueva Guinea. El koromu pertenece al subgrupo de Madang de la supuesta familia transneutiana. La gramática abarca las estructuras de la lengua, haciendo hincapié en la estructura de la información. Se describe el entorno geográfico, lingüístico, social e histórico, así como la fonología y la morfofonología. El libro examina las estructuras morfosintácticas de la lengua, abarcando la estructura básica de las cláusulas, las clases de palabras, las estructuras de las frases y las estructuras de referencia espacial, la morfología verbal, las construcciones verbales en serie, las construcciones de objeto experimentador y las diversas construcciones de combinación de cláusulas (encadenamiento de cláusulas, cláusulas de complemento, cláusulas adverbiales y relativas). Los capítulos también tratan de la (no) realización de frases sustantivas y de la señalización morfológica de la prominencia y muestran cómo se codifican gramaticalmente los enlaces y las colas. Los apéndices contienen textos y una lista de palabras "This book is a grammatical description of Koromu (or Kesawai), an endangered and previously undescribed language in Papua New Guinea's Ramu Valley. Koromu belongs to the Madang subgroup of the putative Trans New Guinea family. The grammar covers the structures of the language, with an emphasis on information structure. Geographic, linguistic, social and historical setting are described as well as phonology and morphophonology. The book examines the morphosyntactic structures of the language, covering basic clause structure, word classes, phrase structures and structures of spatial reference, verbal morphology, serial verb constructions, experiencer object constructions and the various constructions of clause combining (clause chaining, complement clauses, adverbial and relative clauses). Chapters also deal with noun phrase (non)realisation and morphological signaling of prominence and show how links and tails are encoded grammatically. Appendices contain texts and a wordlist."-- Provided by publisher