This grammar is the result of the PhD Project "An Electronic Reference Grammar of Abesabesi" by Jonas Lau. It is supposed to be a case study on how reference grammars can be digitized and therefore only contains exemplary sections of the Abesabesi sketch grammar. The full sketch grammar is part of the PhD thesis "A Digital Reference Grammar of Abesabesi. Towards a data format for digital reference grammars".

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• 1.1.1 Naming the Language
• 1.1.2 Location and surrounding languages
• 1.1.3 Number of speakers
• 1.1.8 Typological sketch
• 1.1.9 Conventions
• 2.1 Vowels
• 2.4.4 Vowel harmony
• 2.6 Orthography
• 3.3 Word classes
• 4.2.2 Noun class
• 5.3.3 Defunct verbs
• 6.2 Pronouns
• 6.2.4 Independent pronouns
• 7.1.1 Simple nominalization
• 8.1 Argument structure
• 8.6.1 Standard negation
• 9.4 Contrastive focus construction