A Grammar of Nungon

A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea
approx. xxiv. 488 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-33750-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 637 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1073 g

Reihe: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Mainland and Insular South East Asia

A Grammar of Nungon is the most comprehensive modern reference grammar of a language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Nungon is a previously-undescribed Finisterre-Huon Papuan language spoken by about 1,000 people in the Saruwaged Mountains, Morobe Province. Hannah Sarvasy provides a rich description of the language in its cultural context, based on original immersion fieldwork. The exposition is extraordinarily thorough, covering phonetics, phonology, word classes, morphology, grammatical relations, switch-reference, valency, complex predicates, clause combining, possession, information structure, and the pragmatics of communication. Four complete interlinearized Nungon monologues and dialogues supplement the copious textual examples. A Grammar of Nungon sets a new standard of thoroughness for reference works on languages of this region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarvasy, Hannah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Hannah S. Sarvasy, PhD (2015), James Cook University, is Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She has published on Nungon, Finisterre Papuan languages, and other topics, and taught at UCLA.