A Grammar of Nama : : A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea / / Jeff Siegel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Siegel, Jeff,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 668
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 350 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of tables --; List of figures --; Abbreviations of grammatical terms --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Phonology --; 3 Nominal morphology --; 4 Verbal morphology --; 5 Additional word classes and phrase structure --; 6 Simple sentences --; 7 Compound and complex sentences --; 8 Typological implications --; Appendix A: Dialectal differences --; Appendix B: Recordings --; Appendix C: List of grammatical morphemes --; Appendix D: Sample text --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783111077017; 9783111175782; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319162; 9783111318240
• ISSN: 1448-8310
• DOI: 10.1515/9783111077017
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeff Siegel.

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.