Showing posts with label Kamano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kamano. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Kamano Grammar Update

In February I wrote on my blog that I was working on the Kamano Grammar Sketch, tidying it up for web publication. Well, the Kamano Grammar Sketch is now online and you can see it here: http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/51803/Kamano_Grammar.pdf If you're not a linguist, most of it won't mean much to you though!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Kamano Grammar Sketch

17 NOV 2009 UPDATE: The Kamano Grammar Sketch is now online! Click the following link to get there. http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/51803/Kamano_Grammar.pdf

Last week I was working on preparing the Kamano Grammar Sketch for web publication. It is a paper that describes the grammar of the Kamano language. It was type-written in 1970, so they only had a paper copy until recently when someone else typed it into the computer. My job has been to go through the electronic document editing the typing errors and other things that did not meet the standard forms for linguistic papers. Much of it involved adding or deleting punctuation marks; inserting arrows; correcting all the cross-references; and putting some words in italics and other words in capitals. It was a long and tedious job, but I didn’t mind it.

The old, tatty original grammar sketch: