Dogomomo <scp>X</scp>mas, <scp>K</scp>wangwe's Races, and a Murder: <scp>W</scp>.<scp>E</scp>. <scp>A</scp>rmstrong and the <scp>R</scp>ossel <scp>I</scp>sland Money

Liep, John

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“…Shell-money is the most significant object of exchange in this region, as it is used in bride-price exchanges and at mortuary feasts (Liep 2015). The term for ten strings of shell-money in some languages is the same, or similar to, the term for the numeral ten, showing a close association between the number ten and the most important object of exchange (see table 1[b]).…”

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Counting by Tens: Specific Counting in Southeast Solomonic Languages

Hill¹,

Unger²

2018

Oceanic Linguistics

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for the Longgu/Malaita/Makira group. Most of these languages show evidence of a specific counting system, although these systems may no longer be widely used. The lexemes referring to "ten things" of one kind (for example, vaga 'ten pigs' in Longgu), are called "numerically specific nouns" by Lichtenberk (2008a) and this terminology is followed here. Numerically specific nouns are not always known by younger speakers (see, for example, Lichtenberk's [2008a] report of Toqabaqita); however, fieldwork on Longgu (Hill) and Lengo (Unger) confirms awareness and use of a specific counting system by at least some members of the language communities. Some numerically specific nouns are widely used by young and old (for example, ada 'ten coconuts' for Longgu), while others are limited to specific villages or contexts. For example, lama 'ten feasting bowls' is widely used in the Longgu village of Nangali, where men still carve wooden feasting bowls, whereas it is not known in the Longgu village of Babasu, a village that has not maintained the tradition of carving.The referents of these numerically specific nouns can be divided into two groupsthings that are edible and things that are not. The edible group includes pigs, dogs, coconuts, fish, eels, birds, breadfruit, food parcels, crayfish/lobsters/prawns, eggs, possums, and turtles. 4 Of these, the object counted by tens most frequently across the languages is 3. Abbreviations follow the Leipzig glossing rules. Additional abbreviations are: ASSOC, associative; CONJ, conjunction; INAN, inanimate; N.LOC, locative noun. 4. When fish are counted by tens, they are typically a specific variety of fish and not fish in general.

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Counting by Tens: Specific Counting in Southeast Solomonic Languages

Hill¹,

Unger²

2018

Oceanic Linguistics

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“…This variety of Kilivila represents the speech of the ancestors, the "old people", and the songs serve the function of a salute to the spirits of the dead, honoring and celebrating them. The songs are verbal manifestations of the Trobrianders' belief in immortal spirits, the baloma, that live in a kind of paradise in the underworld of Tuma Island (see maps 2 & 3; see also Malinowski 1916;. Therefore these songs are also called "wosi Tuma" (or: "usi Tuma"; see Baldwin 1945;1950).…”

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Imdeduya

Senft

2017

Culture and Language Use

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Maps xiii Chapter 1 Introduction: The song Imdeduya and its consequences 1 Chapter 2 Gerubara's version of Imdeduya-a "kukwanebu tommwaya tokunabogwa"-a story of the old men in former times 9 Chapter 3 Mokopai's version of Imdeduya-the "liliu Imdeduya mokwita"-the real Imdeduya myth 25 Chapter 4 Sebwagau's version of the Imdeduya myth documented by Jerry Leach in annotated English glosses as "A Kula folktale from Kiriwina" 109 Chapter 5 John Kasaipwalova's poem "Sail the Midnight Sun" 135 Chapter 6 How do the five Imdeduya texts differ from each other and what do they share with one another? A comparative text linguistic approach 165 Chapter 7 Concluding remarks on magic, myths and oral literature 191 vi Table of contents Appendix I Metadata for the variants of the myth documented on audiotape 1. As already mentioned in the acknowledgements, Tauwema is a village on Kaile'una Island; it was my place of residence on the Trobriand Islands during 16 long-and short-term field trips between 1982 and 2012. 2. The Kilivila orthography is based on Senft (1986: 14ff). 3. Note that Imdeduya's name is changed into Imdeduyo in the song (here and elsewhere); vowel changes like this one-especially in names-are often found in Trobriand songs (see for example Senft 2011: 52).

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The system of classifiers in Kilivila

Senft

2023

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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This paper presents the complex system of classifiers in Kilivila, the language of the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea. After a brief introduction to the language and its speakers, the classifier system is briefly described with respect to the role of these formatives for the word formation of Kilivila numerals, adjectives, demonstratives and one form of an interrogative pronoun/adverb. Then the functions the classifier system fulfils with respect to concord, temporary classification, the unitizing of nominal expressions, nominalization, indication of plural, anaphoric reference as well as text and discourse coherence are discussed and illustrated. The paper ends with some language specific and cross-linguistic questions for further research.

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Dogomomo Xmas, Kwangwe's Races, and a Murder: W.E. Armstrong and the Rossel Island Money

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Counting by Tens: Specific Counting in Southeast Solomonic Languages

Counting by Tens: Specific Counting in Southeast Solomonic Languages

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