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This is a comprehensive grammar of the Papuan language Bunaq as spoken in the district of Lamaknen. Bunaq belongs to the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family, which comprises the westernmost Papuan languages. Surrounded on all sides by Austronesian languages, Bunaq has developed in isolation from other members of the family, and as a result shows a range of unique morphosyntactic patterns. This grammar provides a detailed synchronic description of Bunaq based on a functional-typological approach. Following additional fieldwork and containing new material and analyses, this book is a thoroughly revised version of the author's 2010 PhD thesis, which won the Pāṇini Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology.

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Abbreviations and glossing conventions
• Chapter 1 The Bunaq language and its speakers
• Chapter 2 Phonology and morphophonology
• Chapter 3 Word classes
• Chapter 4 The clause
• Chapter 5 Noun phrases
• Chapter 6 Pronouns and person reference
• Chapter 7 Determiners
• Chapter 8 Locationals
• Chapter 9 Adnominal possession and related constructions
• Chapter 10 Verbs
• Chapter 11 Valency-reducing morphology and deponency
• Chapter 12 Expressing peripheral NPs
• Chapter 13 Serial verb constructions
• Chapter 14 Verbal and clausal modifiers
• Chapter 15 Multiclausal constructions
• Text Appendix
• References
• Index