Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken
in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region
of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any
other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. Fewer than fifty
speakers actively command it today. Based on linguistic
anthropological work conducted over the course of thirty years,
this book describes the grammar of the language, detailing its
phonology, morphology and syntax. It devotes particular attention
to verbs, which are the most elaborated area of the grammar, and
which are complex, fusional and massively suppletive.The book also
provides a full Tayap-English-Tok Pisin dictionary. A particularly
innovative contribution is the detailed discussions of how Tayap''s
grammar is dissolving in the language of young speakers. The book
exemplifies how the complex structures in fluent speakers' Tayap
are reduced or reanalyzed by younger speakers. This grammar and
dictionary should therefore be a valuable resource for anyone
interested in the mechanics of how languages disappear. The fact
that it is the sole documentation of this unique Papuan language
should also make it of interest to areal specialists and language
typologists.
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