A grammar of Nungon : : a Papuan language of Northeast New Guinea / / 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...

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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Setting / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Phonology / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Word Classes / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Nominal Morphology and Noun Phrase Structure / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Final Verbs / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Non-Final Verbs / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Pronouns and Demonstratives / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Grammatical Relation-Marking Postpositions / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Possession / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Clause Types / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Complex Predicates / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Clause Combining / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Discourse / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Appendix: Nungon Texts / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • References / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Author Index / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Languages Index / Hannah S. Sarvasy
  • Subject Index / Hannah S. Sarvasy.