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The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (Oxford Linguistics)

By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0199539812, 9780199539819, 9780191561665
LCC
PL6621.M25 A35 2008
Open Library ID
OL16818664M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6442638 bytes)
Edition
Bilingual
Pages
800\729
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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