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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 668
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIX, 350 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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