A Grammar of Mian / / Sebastian Fedden.
Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea. Mian has approximately 1,400 speakers and is highly endangered. This grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on primary field data...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. The language and its speakers
- Chapter 2. Phonology
- Chapter 3. Word classes and grammatical relations
- Chapter 4. Gender
- Chapter 5. Classificatory verb prefixes
- Chapter 6. The noun phrase
- Chapter 7. The postpositional phrase
- Chapter 8. Verb morphology
- Chapter 9. Argument structure and the syntax of the clause
- Chapter 10. Question formation
- Chapter 11. Chaining constructions
- Chapter 12. Operator scope in clause chaining constructions
- Chapter 13. Embedding
- Appendix I. Texts
- Appendix II. Mian-English wordlist
- Notes
- References
- Index