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The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
736 pages
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Maps, illustrations,
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246x171mm
978-0-19-953981-9
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Hardback
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04 September 2008
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- A fascinating language described by an outstanding grammarian
- Methodical, detailed, clear, complete
- Destined to become a benchmark in the discipline of reference grammatical description
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: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. About 200-400 speakers live in the cities of Port Moresby, Wewak, Lae, and Madang; and a few live in Kokopo and Mount Hagen. The book is based entirely on the author's fieldwork.
After an introductory account of the language and its speakers, Professor Aikhenvald devotes chapters to phonology, grammatical relations, word
classes, gender, semantics, number, case, possession, derivation and compounding, pronouns, morphology, verbs, mood and modality, negation, clauses, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, the lexicon, current directions of change, and genetic relationship to other languages. The description is presented in a clear style in a framework that will be comprehensible to all linguists and linguistic anthropologists.Readership: Suitable for all linguists and linguistic anthropologists.
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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University
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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: Verbal Morphology: An overview
12: Verbal Categories in Positive Declarative and Interrogative Clauses
13: Mood and Modality
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
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