Sivisa Titan: Sketch Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary Based on by Claire Bowern

By Claire Bowern

There are few released grammars of the languages of the Admiralty Islands. This paintings makes to be had useful information compiled by way of Po Minis and the recent Britain missionary P. Josef Meier for the Titan language. Meier released seventy-five texts in Titan (the corpus is set 25,000 phrases) within the magazine Anthropos among 1906 and 1909 and an addendum in 1912. tales comprise short information regarding the audio system and are glossed word-for-word in German and sometimes Latin.

Sivisa Titan is split into 3 sections. the 1st is a cartoon grammar established fullyyt at the texts accumulated through Meier and released by means of him in Anthropos. half is a wordlist compiled from the texts with an English-Titan reversal. half 3 includes the texts released by way of Meier. the current paintings presents English glosses according to Meier’s German ones and loose translations, which aren't integrated by means of Meier. Sivisa Titan can be a useful addition to our wisdom concerning the Admiralty Islands subgroup of Oceania. It additionally illustrates the significance of ethnographic texts accrued within the neighborhood language and probabilities for research according to fabrics initially amassed for one more purpose.

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2) I la tawi manaon ile Nai. 3/1) The fact that manaon are plural ‘eggs’ and not a singular ‘egg’ is known, apart from the fact that turtles lay more than one egg at a time, from the lines of the story following this, where eight of the eggs hatch into turtles and two hatch into humans. 3), 26 Nouns in which the third person plural pronoun ala precedes the noun nat to mark plural. 3) Ala nat ala moaNe i, aru yaye-n aru mat. Iciii/19) Unless number is overtly marked by a non-singular pronoun, agreement with the verb is singular, even when the sense of the noun is nonsingular.

There are several derivational suffixes; there is also a prefix. Finally, there is reduplication. 24) illustrate this with the word duN, which as a noun means ‘noise’ but which as a verb means ‘crackle’. 24) a. Ala cinal ala cavuni i nause. Ala tokai. away 3sg quiet 3pl go any noise poen, ave kulul poen. not any speech not ‘The devils carried him away quietly. They left. 11/3) b. Moan i ye, i tulumui um. I duN ila fire 3sg flare 3sg burn house 3sg crackle becoming madean. big ‘The fire flared and it burned down the house.

Finally, -an, -en, or -in derives nominals from verbs. Due to the possibilities of transcription problems it is not clear whether this is a single morpheme with allomorphs whose conditioning is unclear, or multiple morphemes. It is here tentatively treated as a single morpheme, because there appear to be no systematic differences in meaning between the variants. 3). A single noun was found in the data which could be shown to have both a reduplicated and an unreduplicated form; this was nat, natunat ‘child’.

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