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Constructing a Narrative Discourse in Iau Iau Narrative Discourse CONSTRUCTING A NARRATIVE DISCOURSE IN IAU . with updated appendices- By Janet Bateman Draft-Final copy for comment only not to be quoted Summer Institute of Linguistics Original paper in cooperation with Universitas Cenderawasih Jayapura, Irian Jaya INDONESIA Original from Ivan Lowe Workshop (1984?85?) with subsequent revisions from 1998-2006 Submitted to Mike Moxness Jan 2006 Updated appendices 2020 1 Contents Iau Narrative Discourse CONSTRUCTING A NARRATIVE DISCOURSE IN IAU . with updated appendices- ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.0 Introduction to Iau ................................................................................................................................ 3 1.1 Language Classification ................................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Language Characteristics . ................................................................................................................ 3 2.0 The Data Base....................................................................................................................................... 4 3.0 Titles and Openings .............................................................................................................................. 6 3.1Titles .................................................................................................................................................. 6 3.2 Opening Topic Statements ................................................................................................................ 6 3.3 Settings ............................................................................................................................................. 7 4.0 The Eventline.......................................................................................................................................21 4.1 Examples of some typical Iau eventlines .........................................................................................22 4.2 Predicating information about the topic...........................................................................................38 4.3 Marking chronological sequence .....................................................................................................38 4.4 Marking new information predicated about the topic. .....................................................................42 4.5 Moving the eventline along to it’s resolution and or final outcome ................................................43 4.6 Some Examples Of Discourse Peak ................................................................................................67 4.7 Some Examples Of Eventline Outcomes And Conclusions ............................................................70 4.8 Foregrounding and Backgrounding .................................................................................................73 4.9.Multiple Eventlines .........................................................................................................................78 5.0 Eventline Summaries, Comments And Evaluative Comments ............................................................84 5.1 Eventline Summaries .......................................................................................................................84 5.2 Comments And Evaluative Comment On The Eventline ................................................................88 6.0 Closings ...............................................................................................................................................92 7.0 Organizing The Eventline ....................................................................................................................94 7.1 Gramatical Building Blocks ............................................................................................................94 7.2 Maintaining Cohesion Between the Segments And Episodes. ......................................................104 7.3 The Roles Of Clauses And Conjunctions ......................................................................................108 8.0 Participants ........................................................................................................................................116 8.1 Participant Marking In Iau .............................................................................................................116 8.2 Participant Tracking ......................................................................................................................118 8.3 Participant Ranking And Introduction ..........................................................................................124 9.0 Speech Events, Quotes And Dialogues In Iau ..................................................................................136 9.1 Marking And Embedding Of Quotes On Eventlines .....................................................................136 9.2 The Role Of Quotes In Iau Narrative.............................................................................................138 9.3 The Grammatical Form Of The Quote And It’s Relationship To Function ...................................142 9.4 Dialogues .......................................................................................................................................143 9.5 Speech Events ................................................................................................................................150 Bibliography ............................................................................................................................................152 Appendix 1 Iau Phonology and Orthography ..........................................................................................153 Segmentals ...........................................................................................................................................153 Tones ...................................................................................................................................................154 Tone Sequences ...................................................................................................................................154 Appendix 2: Iau Verb Phrase And Meanings of the Iau Tone Morphemes, Segmental Particles and Their Abbreviations ..........................................................................................................................................155 The Segmental Verb Phrase Particles and Their Abbreviations .........................................................156 Tone Morphemes .................................................................................................................................157 Appendix 3: List of Abbreviations ..........................................................................................................158 2 1.0 Introduction to Iau Iau is a Papuan language spoken by over 1500 speakers who live along the Van Daalan River, a southern brancn of the Tariku /Rouffaer River in the Western Lakes Plain area of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (See Ethnologue or Google Maps, Papua, Indonesia1 The Lakes Plains Languages2 were originally grouped with the Tor languages to the northeast as part of the Trans New Guinea Languages (Wurm 1982, Voorhoeve 1975), but more recently with the Geelvink/Cenderawasih Bay Languages such as Bauzi, Tunggare, and Burate (Clouse, 1997), And as an independent family (Ross 2005, Usher ) (See also Wikipedia). The Iau dialect trio of Iau, Turu, and Foi along with Edopi are classified by Usher (2018) as West Tariku3 languages as opposed to the Wapoga River, Central and Duvle-East languages. The Glottologue makes the Tariku (River) languages into a broader grouping, which includes East Tariku, Central Tariku, Duvle and West Tariku. In this classification Iau and the other 2 dialects are classed as Central Tariku. Iau is also classified as a Central Tariku lanugage in Clouse’s classification of Tariku (1997) which consists of six families—Tause, West Tariku, Central Tariku. East Tariku, Duvle and West Lakes Plains There are two closely related dialects of Iau, Turu and Foi. (Early SIL Lakes Plains survey reports, McAllister 1979, Clouse, 1993) The Turu dialect area is upstream, to the west of the Iau dialect area. The Foi dialect area located midway on the nothern Tariku/Rouffaer River is the “old country”. The great grandparents4 of both the current Turu and current Iau generations left the Foi area and pushed out the Duvle and moved into their current locations in the distant memorable past. The Turu originally located on the western end of the Foi area, also settled on the Van Dalaan upstream from the Iau. The most closely related language to these three dialects is Edopi, located upstream on the Rouffaer River and to the slightly to the northwest of the Turu area . There is no direct river connection between the Edopi and the Turu, only over land and much of it swamp. The Turu have had the most contact with the Edopi area, as was also true in their originating location on western upstream end of the Foi area. even before their move. The Iau settled to the south of the Foi area and to the east of the Turu. Both took over territory from the Duvle who speak a another Lakes Plains language. It is classified
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