Sulawesi Language Alliance

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Wotu Grammar Notes

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Abstract: 
This paper is a basic sketch of the phonology and grammar of the endangered Wotu language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is based on three previously published descriptions of Wotu (one in Dutch, two in Indonesian), two texts, an unpublished sentence list, and an unpublished draft lexicon.
Series: 
Sulang Language Data and Working Papers: Grammar Descriptions
Series Number: 
001
Publisher: 
Sulawesi Language Alliance
Year Published: 
2013
Subject Language(s): 
Wotu
ISO 639-3: 
wtw
Publication Language(s): 
English
Contributor(s): 
Mead, David
author
Table of Contents: 
1 Introduction; 1.1 Classification; 1.2 Corpus; 1.3 Abbreviations; 2 Phonology and orthography; 2.1 Phonemes and phonotactics; 2.2 Geminate consonants; 3 Demonstratives; 4 Pronoun sets; 5 Focus constructions; 5.1 Indexing of intransitive subjects; 5.2 Prefix manga-; 5.3 Prefix mu-; 5.4 Nominative prefix; 5.5 Prefix i-; 5.6 Prefix mo-; 5.7 A note about genitive pronouns; 6 Relativization; 6.1 Relative clause markers iyya, -e and anu; 6.2 Relativization of transitive subjects; 6.3 Relativization of transitive objects; 6.4 Relativization of possessors; 7 Applicatives; 7.1 Applicative suffix -i; 7.2 Applicative suffix -a; 8 Tense, aspect and mood; 8.1 Aspectual enclitics -me and -pe; 8.2 Preverbal markers; 8.3 List of temporal adverbs; 9 Interrogation; 9.1 Yes-no interrogatives; 9.2 Content interrogatives; 9.3 Interrogation of subjects and objects; 9.4 Other uses of interrogative pronouns; 10 Negation; 11 Imperatives; 11.1 Basic imperatives; 11.2 Adhortatives; 11.3 Prohibitives; 11.4 Optatives; 12 Prepositions; 12.1 Preposition i; 12.2 Prepositional verbs awa and mipa; 12.3 Preposition ujia; 12.4 Preposition dia; 12.5 Prepositional verb sitonra; 12.6 Preposition suranga; 12.7 Other prepositions; 13 Conjunctions; 13.1 Phrase-level conjunctions; 13.2 Clause-level conjunctions; 14 Comparative, superlative and other degrees; 14.1 Comparative degree; 14.2 Superlative degree; 14.3 Equative degree; 14.4 Intensive degree; 14.5 Excessive degree; 14.6 Attenuated degree; 15 Numerals; 15.1 Ordinal numerals; 15.2 Frequentative numerals; 15.3 Distributive numerals; References;
Version History: 
Version 1 [22 May 2013]
License: 
Distributed under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License


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