The Iban Language of Sarawak: A Grammatical Description

abstract nouns adjective adverb clause adverb phrases allomorph anaŋ auxiliary verb baika bound morphemes cardinal class-changing class-maintaining Co-ordinative Complex complex adverb complex sentence conjoining consonant constituent datay declarative sentence dǝka dəka direction prepositions diri embedding Emph emphasizing word endocentric examples exocentric ǝnda full word function function words human nouns Iban Iban Language imperative sentence intonation intransitive kami kitay language main clause makay Malay manah minor sentences modifier morpheme naday Nasaliz Nasalization noan nominal phrase NP NP NP VP numeral classifier object occur paŋan parataxis phemes phoneme prefix prepositional phrase pronoun pulay reduplication relative clause rumah Sarawak səduay sida simple stems structure NP subclass subordinate clause subordinative complex Subtype suffix taŋ tauka tion Total Reduplication transitive verb proper transitive verbs udah unmarked structure uraŋ Vadj verbal phrases viii vowel cluster Vt-a zəngaw