Kokota Grammar

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Kokota Grammar OCEANIC LINGUISTICS SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS Numbers I through 25 and 28 are no longer available. 1. English in Hawaii: An Annotated Bibliography. Stanley M. Tsuzaki and John E. Reinecke. 1966. 2. An Ivatan Syntax. Lawrence Andrew Reid. 1966. 3. Manobo-English Dictionary. Richard E. Elkins. 1968. 4. Nguna Texts. Albert J. Schlitz. 1969. 5. Nguna Grammar. Albert 1. Schlitz. 1969. 6. A Grammar of Kaliai-Kove. David R. Counts. 1969. 7. Chrau Grammar. David D. Thomas. 1971. 8. Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. Edited by Lawrence A. Reid. 1971. 9. Japanese Pidgin English in Hawaii: A Bilingual Description. Susumu Nagara. 1972. 10. Kapampangan Syntax. Leatrice T. Mirikitani. 1972. 11. Isneg-English Vocabulary. Morice Vanoverbergh. 1972. 12. Outline ofSre Structure. Timothy M. Manley. 1972. 13. Austroasiatic Studies, Parts I and II. Edited by Philip N. Jenner, Laurence C. Thompson, and Stanley Starosta. 1976. 14. A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Compiled by John E. Reinecke, Stanley M. Tsuzaki, David DeCamp, Ian F. Hancock, and Richard E. Wood. 1975. 15. A Handbook ofComparative Tai. Fang Kuei Li. 1977. 16. Syntactic Derivation ofTagalog Verbs. Videa P. De Guzman. 1978. 17. The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language. James Patrie. 1982. 18. A Grammar of Manam. Frantisek Lichtenberk. 1983. 19. The History of the Fijian Languages. PaulA. Geraghty. 1983. 20. For Gordon H. Fairbanks. Edited by Veneeta Z. Acson and Richard L. Leed. 1985. 21. The Causatives of Malagasy. Charles Randriamasimanana. 1986. 22. Echo ofa Culture: A Grammar of Rennell and Bellona. Samuel H. Elbert. 1988. 23. A Guide to Austroasiatic Speakers and Their Languages. Robert Parkin. 1991. 24. Tonality in Austronesian Languages. Edited by Jerold A. Edmondson and Kenneth J. Gregerson. 1993. 25. Tinrin Grammar. Midori Osumi. 1995. 26. Toward a Reference Grammar ofTok Pisin: An Experiment in Corpus Linguistics. John W. M. Verhaar. 1995. 27. An Erromangan (Sye) Grammar. Terry Crowley. 1998. 28. From Ancient Cham to Modem Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change. Graham Thurgood. 1999. 29. Grammatical Analysis: Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics: Studies in Honor of Stanley Starosta. Edited by Videa P. De Guzman and Byron W. Bender. 2000. 30. Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language ofWestern Australia. Juliette Blevins. 2001. 31. Bislama Reference Grammar. Terry Crowley. 2004. 32. Otto Dempwolff's Grammar ofthe Jabem Language in New Guinea. Translated and edited by Joel Bradshaw and Francisc Czobor. 2005. 33. A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu. Nicholas Thieberger. 2006. 34. William 1. Gedney's Comparative Tai Source Book. Thomas John Hudak. 2007. 35. Kokota Grammar. Bill Palmer. 2009 Publications may be ordered electronically from www.uhpress.hawaii.edu or by mail from University ofHawai'i Press, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, Hawai'j 96822, USA. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 35 Kokota Grammar Bill Palmer University of Hawai'i Press Honolulu © 2009 University of Hawai'i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica 14 13 12 11 10 09 6 5 432 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Palmer Bill, 1961Kokota grammar / Bill Palmer. p. cm. - (Oceanic linguistics special publication; no. 35) ISBN 978-0-8248-3251-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Kokota language-Grammar. I. Title. PL6252.K671P362009 499'.5-dc22 Camera-ready copy for this book was prepared under the supervision of the series editor. 2008036495 University of Hawai'i Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources Printed by Edwards Brothers, Inc. For Sebastian ...