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The field work for this study was done during the 60s. I should like to acknowledge gratefully the urany who have helped me: first and most of all David Akoitai, our language co-worker for Rotokas: Drs Alan and Phyllis Healey of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Papua'New Guinea Branch; Dr Eric Liu of the Linguistics Committee of the University of California at Davis, where I presented this study as a Master"s Thesis; and my wife, Jackie, who worked with the Rotokas language for many years with me.
A list of abbreviations and symbols follows nese notes.
| 1 | The presence of the inclusive and exclusive person markers of the Rotokas verb were apparently unknown to Muller at the time of his writing. |
| 2 | Since this thesis was written several items have been published. See Firchow, 1971,1974,1977; Firchow and Firchow, 1969; Firchow and Akoitai, 1973. |
| 3 | For definition of "dependent", see 3.23.42. |
| 4 | Martinet's "autonomous moneme". |
| 5 | See section 3.42 for co-occurrence restrictions and affixation of specifie nominals. |
| 6 | The letter "s" is used.in the practical orthography although phonemically /s/ is an allophone of /t/. |
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