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The Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea /
This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. The book is based entirely on the author's fieldwork. -...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2008.
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| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Charts, Schemes, and Tables; Organization and Cross-references; Abbreviations and Conventions; Map 1. Location of Manambu villages; 1 Introduction: The Language and its Speakers; 1.1 Linguistic type; 1.2 The Manambu: the present and the past; 1.2.1 Environment and subsistence; 1.2.2 The Manambu villages; 1.2.3 Dwelling patterns: the structure of villages; 1.2.4 Houses and their structure; 1.3 Social organization, kinship, and name ownership; 1.3.1 Clan membership, kinship, and mortuary ritual; 1.3.2 Name ownership and name debates
- 1.4 Relationships with neighbours and recent history1.4.1 Indigenous neighbours and traditional warfare; 1.4.2 Relationships with outsiders; 1.5 Linguistic affiliation and prehistory; 1.5.1 The Ndu language family; 1.5.2 The varieties of Manambu; 1.5.3 Origins and putative prehistory; 1.6 Linguistic situation; 1.7 What we know about the Manambu language; 1.8 Basis for this study; Appendix 1.1 Early documentation of Manambu; 2 Phonology; 2.1 Segmental phonology; 2.1.1 Consonants; 2.1.2 Vowels; 2.1.3 Unusual phonetic patterns; 2.2 Syllable structure; 2.2.1 Syllable types
- 2.2.2 Vowel sequences and diphthongs2.3 Stress; 2.3.1 Stress assignment; 2.3.2 Stress shift; 2.4 Phonological structure of morphemes and syllable weight; 2.4.1 Phonological structure of verbal and non-verbal roots; 2.4.2 Syllable weight and evidence for iambic stress in verbs; 2.5 Phonological word; 2.5.1 General properties; 2.5.2 When one grammatical word corresponds to more than one phonological word; 2.5.3 When two or three grammatical words form one phonological word; 2.6 Phonological processes; 2.7 Intonation patterns; 3 Grammatical Relations; 3.1 Cross-referencing
- 3.2 Grammatical relations marked on noun phrases3.3 'Reactivated topic' demonstratives; 3.4 Grammatical relations in Manambu: a summary; 4 Word Classes; 4.1 Nouns; 4.1.1 Morphophonological subclasses of nouns; 4.1.2 Semantically and grammatically determined subclasses of nouns; 4.2 Verbs; 4.2.1 Verbal grammatical categories; 4.2.2 Semantically and grammatically determined subclasses of verbs; 4.3 Adjectives; 4.3.1 Agreeing and non-agreeing adjectives; 4.3.2 Adjectives in comparison with nouns and verbs; 4.3.3 Semantics of adjectives; 4.4 Adverbs; 4.5 Closed classes; 4.5.1 Modal words
- 4.5.2 Postpositions4.5.3 Particles and connectives; 4.5.4 Interjections and onomatopoeia; 4.5.5 'Pro-sentences'; 4.5.6 Word class assignment of loans and code-switches; 5 Gender Marking, Semantics, and Agreement; 5.1 Gender and number agreement: contexts and forms; 5.1.1 Agreement contexts; 5.1.2 Gender and number agreement forms; 5.1.3 Additional gender and number forms; 5.1.4 Functions of gender and number agreement; 5.2 How to choose a gender: semantics, and markedness relationships; 5.2.1 The semantics of gender choice; 5.2.2 Mismatches in gender agreement; 5.2.3 Markedness relations