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Kuuy Tʹmɛɛr - A Grammar of Kelantan Temiar

Kuuy Tʹmɛɛr - A Grammar of Kelantan Temiar

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LinguisticsIndigenous Studies

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 173913446X
ISBN13: 9781739134464
Publisher: D P Quinton
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Eighteen years of engaging in conversation with the Temiars in Kelantan, Malaysia, has enabled David P. Quinton to piece together the grammatical rules which their language follows. In 2022, he embarked on the daunting task of a systematic description of these rules, in line with other linguistic accounts of 'Aslian' or Malayan indigenous languages. The result is a detailed account of phonology and processes of lexical morphology, with a description of word classes including nouns, names, kin terms, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, ideophones and conjunctives, along with expressive phrases and phrase formation. In the appendices, a lexical comparison of Temiar and Semai can be found, containing some 1300 equivalent words, together with lists of 1500 fossilised morphemes and a great list of almost 900 ideophonic words.

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