Bradshaw Robert L. Fuyug Grammar Sketch

Ukarumpa: SIL Printing Press, 2007. — XII, 187 p. — (Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, Volume 53). — ISBN: 9980-0-3353-3.This grammar was originally written in the 1990s and finalised in 2001. Because so little information is available on Fuyug and because Robert is no longer working in the Fuyug area, it was decided that publishing this analysis would be a service to the linguistic world. Since it was written a while ago, this sketch reflects the descriptive organisation that was recommended by SIL-PNG in the 1990s, moving from phoneme via morpheme, word, phrase, clause, sentence to discourse, devoting a separate chapter to each level. Even though there are disadvantages to this somewhat rigorous differentiation of levels, I trust that the relevant facts of the language will still be fairly easy to find for the interested reader.The present work is a grammar of the Fuyug language of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea. This grammar begins with introductory comments on the Fuyug language and culture (chapter 1), then goes on to a discussion of the phonology (chapter 2) and the morphological system of the language (chapter 3). Next, I describe the word level (chapter 4), phrase level (chapter 5) and clause level (chapter 6). After this, there is a discussion of coordination and subordination (chapter 7), followed by a discussion of genre types and various discourse devices employed in Fuyug, including cohesion and participant reference (chapter 8). The grammar concludes with an interlinearised text.