A Grammar of South Efate

Index

Index A(ctor)-type intransitive verbs, 203 A(ctor)-type intransitives, 203 Addressee deictic, 144 Addressee deixis, 137 Adjectives, 81 Adverbs, 88 Affectedness of the object, 211 Affixes, 74 Alban, Silas, 1 Ambitransitive verbs, 184 Ameka, Felix, 96 Anejom (language), 301 Anti-causative (POC *ma-), 214 Araki (language), 221 Argument status, 267 Arrowroot, cash-cropping, 25 Aspect, 166 Aspect in pronominals, 109 Atara Imere (language), 30 Audiamus (software), 10 Austin, Peter, 182, 267 Azoulay, Leon, 9 Bedford, Stuart, 15 Benchley, K., 23 Bible, 6, 25, 34-36, 38,40-41,261, 325-326 Bird, Steven, 6-7 Bislama, 41 Blackbirding, 26 Blevins, Juliette, 57 Blust, Robert, 31, 230 Bolton, Lissant, 23 Bonnemaison, Joel, 12 Bresnan, Joan,267 Bufa (village), 16 Bybee, Joan, 158 Campbell, Malcolm, 27-28 Capell, Arthur, 4, 34-36, 40, 42 Careful speech, 69 Casual speech, 69 Catholic missionaries, 28 Census figures (1991), 17 Childbirth, 24 Churchill, W., 34 Clark, Ross, 14, 16,36-37,45,68, 123, 212 Clause chaining, 324 Clitics, 74 Clothing, traditional, 22 Codrington, Robert Henry, 35 Cognate subject verbs, 182 Complement-taking predicates, 301 Completive, 266 Compound verbs, asymmetrical, 229 Compound verbs, symmetrical, 226 Comrie, Bernard, 149, 192 Conditionals, 319 Consonant clusters, 61 Content question formation, 282 Copula, 270 Corris, Peter, 26-27 Cosh, Rev. James, 22-23, 28-29, 33, 38-39 Cosh, Janet, 22 Critical Literacy workshops, 41 Croft, William, 281 Crowley. Terry, 2,17,27,30-33, 40-42, 104, 106, 111, 120, 123, 129,162-163,175,182,204, 209, 212, 221-223, 225, 236, 241,243,246,265,302,327 Dahl, Osten, 11, 150-151, 155 Data, criteria for well-formed linguistic data, 7 Degemination, 71 Demonstratives, 143 Detransitivizing prefix ta-, 216 Direct possession, 129 Dissolution of serial verbs, 223 Ditransitive verbs, 189 Dixon, R.M.W., 42, 86, 177 Don, A., 15 Durand, R., 23 Duranti, Alessandro, 6 Durie, Mark, 79, 238, 240 Dyadic kinterm, 131 381 Index Early, Robert, 83,214,221,242,327 Echo-subject marker, 111 Economic base of South Efate society, 25 Efate, geography, 12 Elkin, Adolphus Peter (AP), 14 Erskine, J.E., 17,22,29 Evans, Bethwyn, 115-116 Evans, Nicholas, 132, 254 Exclamatory calls, 102 Facey, Ellen, 40, 193 Fishman, Joshua, 43 Foley, William, 222, 274, 324 Forster, J. R., 26 Franceville (Mele), 29 Franyois, Alexandre, 143, 162, 221 Frawley, William, 166 Funerals, 23 Garanger, Jose, 14-15,24 Gender, 103, 125 Geraghty, Paul, 26 Greetings, 99 Harcombe, D., 12 Havannah Harbor, 27 Himmelmann, Nikolaus, 6, 222 Hollyman, Ken, 18 Hopper, Paul, 166,210,266 Hortatives, 159 Housing, 22 Huddleston, Rodney, 295 Huffman, Kirk, 1, 16 Hyslop, Catriona, 83, 129, 146, 162, 171,216,221,243,282,301, 327 Imperative, 159 Imtang (village), 16 Inherent 0 verbs, 193 Intensifier pe, 234 Interjections, 96 Intonation pattern of questions, 286 Irrealis, 161 Jauncey, Dorothy, 172,221-222 Kalagis,2 Kalam (language), 222 Kalsarap, Endis, 5 Kalsarur Nawen, 43 Kalsei,2 Kaluat, Wilson, 35 Kastom, 18 Keenan, Edward, 313 Kinship nouns, 124 Kirch, Pat, 15 Korman, Maxime Carlot, 37 Kulick, Don, 42 Kuwae (eruption), 14 Landow, George, 8 Language archiving, 7 Language documentation, 6 Lanyon-Orgill, Peter, 26 Lapita, 15 Lawler, John, 8 Layard, John, 16,21 Leavetakings, 99 Lei Maui-tikitiki, 15 Lelepa (island), 29-30 Lewo (language), 221, 327 Lichtenberk, Frantisek, 120, 175, 204, 212, 262-263, 267 Lindstrom, Lamont, 20 Lolovoli, 221, 327 Longacre, Robert, 296, 316, 324 Lord, Carol, 301 Luders, David, 14 Lynch, John, 2,17,30-32,37,40, 42, 45, 55, 104, 111, 114, 129, 162-163, 175, 186, 204, 236, 241,243,246,292,301-302 Macdonald, Rev. Daniel, 2, 12, 15, 21-25,27-29,33-34,38,279 Mackenzie, Rev. Dr. James, 21, 33 Maclellan, Nic, 29 Maconi, V., 24-25 Maffi, Luisa, 8 Mare (New Caledonia), 18 382 Margetts, Anna, 175, 280, 288 Mason, Merrin, 25 Maui-tikitiki, 15 McArthur, Norma, 17 Mchombo, Sam, 267 McRae, Shirley, 2, 35 Medial vowel deletion, 68 Medial Vowel Reduction (MVR), 69 Mele, resistance to Christianity, 29 Merlan, Francesca, 131 Miller,1. (Graham), 16-17,25, 29, 34 Miller, R., 22, 27-28 Milne, Peter, 34 Mithun, Mariane, 136 Monnier, P., 28-29 Mood, 158 Mood and transitivity (correlation), 165 Morrison, Rev. Donald, 28 Mosel, Ulrike, 74, 175, 286-289 Moyse-Faurie, Claire, 292 Miihlhausler, Peter, 42 Mwotlap (language), 221 Naflak, 15,21 Nakanamanga (language), 30 Namakir (language), 68,221 Nasal assimilation, 70 Nasal...