A Grammar of Nama
| Autor: | Jeff Siegel |
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| EAN: | 9783111077017 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 24.07.2023 |
| Untertitel: | A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea |
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| Schlagworte: | Grammar Grammatik Neuguinea New Guinea Papua Sprachen Papuan Yam Familie Yam Family |
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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.
Jeff Siegel, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
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