A Grammar of Nungon : A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea
Hannah 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.
Έτος:
2017
Έκδοση:
1
Εκδότης:
BRILL
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
659
ISBN 10:
9004340106
ISBN 13:
9789004340107
Σειρές:
Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages Series
Αρχείο:
PDF, 3.16 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017