LINGUIST List 23.297 Mon Jan 16 2012 Diss: Anthro Ling/Austronesian: De Busser: 'Towards a Grammar of ...' Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Rik De Busser , Towards a Grammar of Takivatan Bunun: Selected topics Message 1: Towards a Grammar of Takivatan Bunun: Selected topics Date: 13-Jan-2012 From: Rik De Busser <rdbussergmail.com> Subject: Towards a Grammar of Takivatan Bunun: Selected topics E-mail this message to a friend Institution: La Trobe University Program: Research Centre for Linguistic Typology Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2009 Author: Rik De Busser Dissertation Title: Towards a Grammar of Takivatan Bunun: Selected topics Dissertation URL: http://www.rdbusser.com/pub/DeBusser2009TowardsAGrammarOfTakivatanBunun%5BFinalVers_20091027_Online%5D.pdf Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics                             Language Documentation                             Morphology Subject Language(s): Bunun (bnn) Language Family(ies): Austronesian Dissertation Director: K. Alexander Adelaar Randy J. LaPolla Frantisek Kratochvil Dissertation Abstract: The Bunun language is spoken by one of the thirteen officially recognized Austronesian minority groups on the island of Taiwan. Its most marked characteristics are its complex verbal morphology and its unusual argument alignment system. Takivatan Bunun is the third-largest of its five extant dialects and is spoken by a number of small settlements two counties in the central mountains and at the east coast of the island. Based on more than one year of field work data, this dissertation explores aspects of the grammar of Takivatan as spoken by the people of the villages Ma-yuan and Qi-mei in Hualien County. It is intended as a preliminary to a full descriptive grammar. After an introductory chapter and an overview of Takivatan phonology, Chapter 3 discusses how words and affixes can be defined in Takivatan and gives a general overview of word building processes. Chapter 4 is a concise treatment of compounding, an uncommon and unproblematic process in Takivatan. Chapter 5 discusses TAM affixes. Chapter 6 concisely describes the grammatical and derivational uses of focus suffixes. Chapter 7 is an elaborate discussion and classification of the large set of verbal prefixes in Takivatan. The final chapter concludes with an overview of definiteness markers, personal pronouns, demonstratives and other pronominal forms. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Jan-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.