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The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
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Numerous maps and illustrations
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246x189mm
978-0-19-958823-7
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Paperback
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17 June 2010
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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 is the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea and is based entirely on the author's immersion fieldwork. 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. Manambu can be considered an endangered language.
The Manambu language has many unusual properties. Every noun is considered masculine or feminine. Feminine gender - which is unmarked - is associated with small size and round shape, and masculine gender with elongated shape,
large size, and importance. The Manambu culture is centered on ownership of personal names, and is similar to that of the Iatmul, described by Gregory Bateson.
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, morphohology, verbs, mood and modality, negation, clause structure, 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 linguistically oriented
anthropologists.Readership: Suitable for all linguists and linguistic anthropologists.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald, Professor and Research Leader, Cairns Institute, James Cook 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: Predicate Structure and Verb Root Types
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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