Brill’s studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, ISSN 1877-4083 ; volume 5
Print version: Breugel, Seino van. Grammar of Atong. Leiden : Brill, 2014 xxxvii, 659 pages Brill’s studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; volume 5 ISBN 9789004258921
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Atong language and its speakers -- Phonology -- Word classes: an overview -- Verbs and verb/nouns -- Adjectives -- Nouns, the noun phrase and the nominal clump -- Kinship terms -- Deictic words -- Interrogatives -- Indefinite preforms -- The quantifier phrase, numerals and other quantifiers -- Classifiers -- Postpositions -- Discourse connectives -- Other word classes -- Sub-class-changing derivation -- Phrasal enclitics -- Semantic-role marking -- Pragmatic-role and specificity enclitics -- The predicate -- Derivational suffixes -- Predicate enclitics -- The clause, clause types and illocutionary force -- The factitive enclitic =wa , subordination and nominalization -- Goal-marked predicates -- Temporal-location and conditional clauses -- Concomitant-action clauses -- Adverbial and sequential clauses.