Lichtenberk Frantisek. A Grammar of Toqabaqita

Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — 1356 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 42-1, 42-2)Toqabaqita is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 13,000 people on the island of Malaita in the south-eastern Solomon Islands. This two-volume grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language, based on the author's field work. The grammar deals with the phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse patterns of the language, as well as with its contact with Solomon Islands Pijin. It will be of special interest to typologists and to specialists in Austronesian linguistics.Phonology.
Grammatical profile.
The verb phrase.
The particles in the verb complex.
The noun phrase.
The noun-phrase internal particle group.
Possessive and associative noun phrases.
Nominalizations and deverbal nouns.
The prepositional phrase.
Coordination of noun phrases and prepositional phrases.
Compounding.
The demonstratives and the demonstrative adverbs.
Constructions with inclusory pronominals.
Tense and aspect.
The sequential subject markers.
Negation.
Mood.
Interrogatives.
Imperatives.
Low-individuation-of participants derivations.
Reciprocal and related situation types.
Self-contained situations.
Unrestricted choice.
Comparison of inequality.
Locational, existential, and possessive sentences.
Verbless sentences.
Coordination of clauses.
Complement clauses.
Relative clauses.
Conditional sentences.
Concessive clauses.
Reason clauses, purpose clauses, and purpose nominalizations.
Consequence clauses.
Temporal relations.
Deranked subordinate clauses.
Direct speech.
Topicalization.
Focusing.
Toqabaqita, Solomon Islands Pijin, and English.
Texts.