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A Grammar of Nama

A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea

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Fachbuch

Buch. Softcover

2025

369 S. 3 s/w-Abbildungen, 19 Farbabbildungen, 69 s/w-Tabelle.

In englischer Sprache

De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-221508-1

Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23 cm

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Pacific Linguistics [PL]; 668

Produktbeschreibung

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.