Garland Susan. Mountain Koiali Grammar: Sentences, Paragraphs, and Discourses

Summer Institute of Linguistics. — exact source unknown. — p. 107-222.Mountain Koiali is a member language of the Koiarian Language family of Central Papua. It is spoken by approximately 3700 speakers scattered over the southern and northern slopes of the Owen Stanley Range of the Central And Northern Districts, Papua New Guinea. The dialect used in this paper is spoken in and around the villgae of Efogi at the headwaters of the Brown River. This paper describes the sentences, paragraphs, and discourses observed in this language after approximately six years of work in the Mountain Koiali Language under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. A previous paper, A Grammar sketch of Mountain Koiali (printed in Studies In Languages of Central and South East Papua by T.E. Dutton, Ed., Pacific Linguistics, Series C-No. 29, 1975, published by the Linguistic Circle of Canberra) discussed the lower levels of grammar from stems through sentences.