book chapter
Part one: Kilivila grammar
Kilivila : the language of the Trobriand Islands, by Gunther Senft • Berlin • Published In 1986 • Pages: 1-173
By: Senft, Gunther.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is part one of Senft's study of Kilivila, an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 20,600 people living on the Trobriand islands in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. Part two, a dictionary of the language, is not included. This work begins with a few introductory remarks on the Kilivila language, and then proceeds to a study of phonology and grammar, with emphasis on the latter. The section on grammar concludes with a discussion on style, illustrated by three sample texts, and a syntactic analysis of a Kilivila sentence. The study concludes with the presentation of a brief Kilivila/English and English/Kilivila dictionary.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Language
- Grammar
- Phonology
- Sociolinguistics
- Linguistic identification
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Trobriands
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date -- 15 months [p. 4]
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tauwema, Kaileuna Island, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Gunther Senft
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86016484
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kilivilian language