A grammar of Nungon : : a Papuan language of Northeast New Guinea / / by Hannah S. Sarvasy.

• VerfasserIn: Sarvasy, Hannah S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (659 pages) :; illustrations, maps, tables.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Setting /; Phonology /; Word Classes /; Nominal Morphology and Noun Phrase Structure /; Final Verbs /; Non-Final Verbs /; Pronouns and Demonstratives /; Grammatical Relation-Marking Postpositions /; Possession /; Clause Types /; Complex Predicates /; Clause Combining /; Discourse /; Appendix: Nungon Texts /; References /; Author Index /; Languages Index /; Subject Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004340106
• ISSN: 2352-9342
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Hannah S. Sarvasy.

A Grammar of Nungon is the most comprehensive modern reference grammar of a language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Nungon is a previously-undescribed Finisterre-Huon Papuan language spoken by about 1,000 people in the Saruwaged Mountains, Morobe Province. Hannah Sarvasy provides a rich description of the language in its cultural context, based on original immersion fieldwork. The exposition is extraordinarily thorough, covering phonetics, phonology, word classes, morphology, grammatical relations, switch-reference, valency, complex predicates, clause combining, possession, information structure, and the pragmatics of communication. Four complete interlinearized Nungon monologues and dialogues supplement the copious textual examples. A Grammar of Nungon sets a new standard of thoroughness for reference works on languages of this region.