TABLE OF CONTENTS
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List of Abbreviations and Glosses...
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Introduction................
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1.1 Purpose of this book
1.2 Fieldwork in Hewa
1.3 Database used for this study
1.4 Language overview
1.4.1 Genetic affiliation and dialectal situation
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Previous linguistic research on Sika
1.4.3 Language structure of Hewa
1.5 Content overview
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Phonology.............
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2.1 Introduction
2.2 Preliminaries on phonetic symbols and orthography
2.3 Phoneme inventory and phoneme realisation
. 2.3.1 Consonant inventory
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Vowel inventory
2.3.3 Summary of Hewa phonemes
2.4 Stress
2.5 Syllable and word structure
2.6 Historical observations
2.7 Comparative perspective
2.8 Conclusions on the phonology of Hewa
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Verbal inflection
3.1 Introduction to verb classes in Hewa
3.2 Personal pronouns and prefixes
3.3 Inflection paradigms
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Vowel initial verbal stems
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Stop initial verbal stems
3.3.3 Liquid initial verbal stems
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Inflection paradigms in other Sika varieties
3.4 Verbal suffixes
3.5 Conclusions on the verbal inflection in Hewa
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4.1 Introduction to possessive constructions
4.2 Possessive constructions in Hewa
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4.2. T Pronominal possessor: NOUN - PRO-n
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Nominal possessor: PsrNP - NOUN-n
4.2.3 Nominal possessor: NOUN - PsrNP (- PRO-n)
4.2.4 Summary of possessive constructions in Hewa
4.3 Predicative possessive constructions
4.4 Derivational and attributive functions of -n
4.5 Conclusions on possessive constructions in Hewa
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Spatial language
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Elements in the spatial language of Hewa
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Intrinsic spatial terms
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Relative spatial terms
5.2.3 Absolute spatial terms
5.2.4 Demonstratives
5.2.5 Summary of spatial language elements
5.3 Expressing spatial relations in Hewa
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The basic ground phrase
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Adverbial ground phrases
5.3.3 Ground phrases in motion events
5.3.4 Other types of ground phrases
5.3.5 Summary of ground phrase constructions
5.4 Geocentric spatial terms - an areal comparison
5.5 Conclusions on the spatial language of Hewa
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Conclusions
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References
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Appendix 1: References to database............................................
Appendix 2: List of Hewa verbs
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Appendix 4: Word lists
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Appendix 5: Hewa dictionary
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