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Review of Kayser's Nauru Grammar by Bernard Comrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | This grammar was completed in 1936 by Father Alois Kayser (1877-1944), a missionary who spent almost 40 years on Nauru; it was presented to the administration, retyped on stencils, and duplicated. |
| | By all reports Father Kayser had a superb knowledge of Nauruan, but he was not a professional linguist. |
| | Kayser's grammatical terminology, though basically that of traditional European grammar, is occasionally quaint, as when he uses subjective clause to mean a relative clause construction where the head noun is subject of the main clause (211), but in the grammar itself at least I felt that I could understand what he is trying to say. |
| www.trussel.com /kir/comrie.htm (380 words) |
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