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Bislama Reference Grammar

ISBN-10: 0824828801

ISBN-13: 9780824828806

Edition: 2004

Authors: Terry Crowley

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Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 5/31/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Terry Crowley is a professor of HIstory at the University of Guelph. Among his previous books, Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality won the W.C. Good Writing Award of the Rural Learning Association.

List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Maps
Background to Bislama
Bislama: An Independent Language
Bislama in Vanuatu Society
Historical Background
The Vocabulary of Bislama
Varieties of Bislama
What Kind of Grammar is This?
Pronunciation and Spelling
Consonants
Vowels
Expanded Sound Systems
Spelling
Stress
Intonation
Syllables
Parts of Speech
Nouns
Pronouns
Prepositions
Verbs
Noun Modifiers
Number Markers
Adjectives
Adverbs
Other Modifiers
Interrogatives
Complex Sentence Markers
Interjections and Vocatives
Words with Several Functions
Nouns and Noun Phrases
Nouns
Simple and Complex Nouns
Compounding
Adjective + Noun
Noun + Postmodifier
Verb + Noun
Noun + Noun
Reduplication
Affixation
The Suffix - wan
The Prefix eks-
Emerging Suffixes?
Pronouns
Noun Phrases
Quantifiers + Nouns
Pronouns + Quantifiers
Adjectives
Reduplication
The Suffix -fala
Compounding
Noun Postmodifiers
Demonstratives
Nouns Modified by Sentences
Noun Phrases Linked by blong
Possession
Other Functions of blong
Coordinate Noun Phrases
Verbs and Verb Phrases
Verbs
Reduplication
Compounds
Affixation
Transitive Suffix
Directional Suffixes
Daon
Aot
Raon
Bak
Ap
Complex Verbs
Verb Phrases
Imperatives, Prohibitives, and Hortatives
The Forms i and oli
Tense
Negative Markers
Auxiliaries
Mas
Bin
Jas
Stap
Save
Wantem
Sud
Kanduit
Kam and Go
Stil
Post-Verbal Modifiers
Modifiers of Manner
Simple Sentences
Statements
Predicate Sentences and Predicate Markers
Non-Predicate Sentences
Presentative Sentences
Equational Sentences
'Ought to' Constructions
Constituent Order
Transitive and Intransitive Constructions
Meteorological Expressions
General States
The Existential Verb gat
Negation of Incomplete Sentences
Actions without Causers
Verb + Noun Constructions
Double Object Constructions
Prepositional Phrases
Basic Prepositions
Blong
From
Wetem
Wetaot(em)
Olsem
Long
Verbal Prepositions
Kasem
Bitim
Ronem
Agensem
Raonem
Folem
Tokbaot
Yusum
Position of Prepositional Phrases
Complex Prepositions
Adverbs
Adverbs of Place
Adverbs of Time
Adverbs of Manner
Miscellaneous Adverbs
Placement of Adverbs and Post-Verbal Modifiers
Questions
Yes-No Questions
Content Questions
Wanem
Se
Huia
Hamas
Hameni
Wijwan
Waswe
Watfo
Wataem
We
Wehem
From
From wanem
Olsem wanem
Fronted Noun Phrases
Complex Sentences
Serial Verbs
Directional Verbs
Manner Constructions
Causative Constructions
Sequential Actions
Coordination
Mo
Be
(N)o
Subordination
Juxtaposition
Subordinator Constructions
Simple Subordinators
Blong and Long
Se
We
Nogud
Complex Subordinators
From
Kasem
Olsem
Taem
Tetaem
Sapos
Nomata, Nevamaen, Nating, and Iven
Afta and Bifo
Question Words as Subordinators
Sentences in Discourse
The Sequencing of Events
Cause and Effect
Contrary to Expectation
The Pragmatic Particle ia
Previous Studies of Bislama Grammar
References
Index
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