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 ; New York :
Oxford Univ. Press,
©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; 2 Phonology; 3 Grammatical Relations; 4 Word Classes; 5 Gender Marking, Semantics, and Agreement; 6 Number; 7 Case Marking; 8 Possession; 9 Derivation and Compounding; 10 Closed Classes; 11 Predicate Structure and Verb Root Types; 12 Verbal Categories in Positive Declarative and Interrogative Clauses; 13 Mood and Modality; 14 Negation; 15 Verb Compounding.