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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.
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A Grammar of Nama, Jeff Siegel
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- A Grammar of Nama
- Untertitel
- A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Jeff Siegel
- Verlag
- de Gruyter Mouton
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 369
- ISBN10
- 311107661X
- ISBN13
- 9783111076614
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Lehrbücher, Sprachbücher & -lexika
- Beschreibung
- 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.