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. INDICE: 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 andModality; 14: Negation; 15: Verb Compounding; 16: Directionals and Valency-Changing Devices; 17: Complex Predicates; 18: Clause Linking and Dependent Clauses; 19: Other Dependent Clauses and Further Features of Clause Linking; 20: Clause Types and Discourse-Pragmatic Devices; 21: Issues in Semantics and Features of Lexicon; 22: Genetic and Areal Relationships, and New Developments in the Language; Texts; Vocabulary; List of Affixes; References; Index of Authors, Languages, and Subjects
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958823-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 732
- Fecha Publicación: 17/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés