A Grammar of Nama A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jeff Siegel
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2025
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenscha
• EAN: 9783112215081
• ISBN: 978-3-11-221508-1
• Anzahl Seiten: 350
• Illustration: 3 b/w and 19 col. ill., 69 b/w tbl.
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.5 x 2.2 x 23 cm
• Gewicht (Verpackung): 549 g
• Serie: Pacific Linguistics [PL] > 668
• Themen: Grammatik, Linguistics, Neuguinea, Grammar, new guinea, SCI000000 SCIENCE / General, LAN009060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Papuan-Sprachen, Yam Family, Papuan, Yam Familie, Papua Sprachen, Australasien, Ozeanien, Pazifische Inseln, Atlantische Inseln