Siegel A Grammar of Nama

A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-107701-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 668, 369 Seiten

Reihe: Pacific Linguistics [PL]

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.

Zielgruppe

Researchers interested in Linguistic Analysis and Typology, speci

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siegel, Jeff

Über Autor(innen)

Jeff Siegel, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.

Jeff Siegel, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.