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Abstract

This paper provides description and analysis of the morphology of
Tomoip, an Austronesian language spoken on the island of New Britain in Papua
New Guinea. The nominal morphology of Tomoip includes clitics and affixes that
designate grammatical number, narrow the semantics of the noun, and indicate
possession, among other functions. The verbal morphology includes clitics and
affixes that index subject arguments, encode mood, and signal or increase valency.
This paper also provides description of adjectives, numerals, quantifiers, pronouns,
and several function words and particles in the language.