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A Grammar of Nama : A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea
A Grammar of Nama : A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea
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Author(s): Siegel, Jeff
ISBN No.: 9783112215081
Pages: 369
Year: 202506
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 30.79
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea. It is a member of the Nambu subgroup of the Yam family of languages (also known as the Morehead-Upper Maro family). This grammar is the first published comprehensive description of a language in this subgroup. Nama has an interesting complex morphology with 21 nominal suffixes (17 case-marking) and 31 verbal prefixes and suffixes, indexing arguments (person/number) and indicating tense (current, recent, remote) and aspect (perfective/imperfective, inceptive, punctual, delimited, durative). Nama also has some linguistic features that are either very rare or not attested in other languages.


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