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A Grammar of Tukang Besi (review)

A Grammar of Tukang Besi (review) Mark Donohue. 1999. A Grammar of Tukang Besi. Mouton Grammar Library 20. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York. 24.0 x 16.0 cm. xxvi + 576 pp. 14 ²gures, 23 tables, 7 plates, 5 maps. DM 348, approx. US$ 174.00, cloth. ISBN 3-11-016188-5. Tukang Besi is spoken in the archipelago of the same name east of the island of Buton in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The four main islands are home to a population of some 80,000 people who speak this language, but with sizable Tukang Besi communities elsewhere in Indonesia, the total number of speakers may well be over 150,000. The islands have little arable land, and in combination with perennial water shortage, this has led to major emigrations, as well as to nontraditional economic activities such as trading in smuggled goods. All over Southeast Sulawesi and Maluku, one can ²nd second-hand clothes in market places, smuggled from Singapore by Tukang Besi traders. Tukang Besi is also one of the world's ²nest diving places. This grammar, a revision of the author's dissertation defended at the Australian National University in 1995, is the ²rst description of the native language of these people. It is solid, detailed, and comprehensive, and therefore http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oceanic Linguistics University of Hawai'I Press

A Grammar of Tukang Besi (review)

Berg, René van den
Oceanic Linguistics , Volume 39 (2) – Dec 1, 2000
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Mark Donohue. 1999. A Grammar of Tukang Besi. Mouton Grammar Library 20. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York. 24.0 x 16.0 cm. xxvi + 576 pp. 14 ²gures, 23 tables, 7 plates, 5 maps. DM 348, approx. US$ 174.00, cloth. ISBN 3-11-016188-5. Tukang Besi is spoken in the archipelago of the same name east of the island of Buton in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The four main islands are home to a population of some 80,000 people who speak this language, but with sizable Tukang Besi communities elsewhere in Indonesia, the total number of speakers may well be over 150,000. The islands have little arable land, and in combination with perennial water shortage, this has led to major emigrations, as well as to nontraditional economic activities such as trading in smuggled goods. All over Southeast Sulawesi and Maluku, one can ²nd second-hand clothes in market places, smuggled from Singapore by Tukang Besi traders. Tukang Besi is also one of the world's ²nest diving places. This grammar, a revision of the author's dissertation defended at the Australian National University in 1995, is the ²rst description of the native language of these people. It is solid, detailed, and comprehensive, and therefore

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