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A Grammar of Nama - (Pacific Linguistics [Pl]) by Jeff Siegel (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea.
- About the Author: Jeff Siegel, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
- 369 Pages
- Language + Art + Disciplines, Language Arts
- Series Name: Pacific Linguistics [Pl]
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Book Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Jeff Siegel, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.