Firchow Irwin B. A grammar of Rotokas

[Manuscript]. : s.n. 1974. — vi + 181 p.The present draft of the Rotokas grammar is intended to serve three purposes. It is first an outline of a future draft in which the missing chapters will be filled in, and in which the whole grammar including the portions presented here will be tied together. Secondly, this draft provides without further delays the materials on Rotokas syntax which were developed during the 1974 Higher Levels Grammar Workshop held at Ukarumpa (P.N.G. Branch). Finally it allows me to put down in black and white some ideas in the rough which at the present time I feel of worth for a descriptive format. With criticisms by others and another good hard look at it within the coming year by myself, these current ideas will no doubt undergo further changes before there is satisfaction with a final draft. I hope anyone reading this present draft will realize that in many parts I am only thinking on paper and these ideas still need time to simmer a bit more!