Title: A Grammar of Nama
Subtitle: A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea
Series Title: Pacific Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111077017/html

Author: Jeff Siegel
Hardback: ISBN: 9783111076614 Pages: 350 Price: Europe EURO 109.95
Electronic: ISBN: 9783111077017 Pages: 350 Price: Europe EURO 109.95
Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Written In: English (eng)

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