A grammar of Nama : a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea / Jeff Siegel
- Bib ID:
- 10006264
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Siegel, Jeff, author
- Description:
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- Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2023]
- ©2023
- xvi, 350 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 311107661X ((hardcover))
- 9783111076614 ((hardcover))
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9783111077116 (ePub ebook)
- 9783111077017 ((PDF))
- Series:
- Pacific linguistics ; v. 668. 1448-8310
- Summary:
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Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea. It is a member of the Nambu subgroup of the Yam family of languages (also known as the Morehead-Upper Maro family). This grammar is the first published comprehensive description of a language in this subgroup. Nama has an interesting complex morphology with 21 nominal suffixes (17 case-marking) and 31 verbal prefixes and suffixes, indexing arguments (person/number) and indicating tense (current, recent, remote) and aspect (perfective/imperfective, inceptive, punctual, delimited, durative). Nama also has some linguistic features that are either very rare or not attested in other languages.
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- "PL 668"--Spine.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also published electronically.
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