A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea by Sarvasy, Hannah

A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004337503)

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Format: Hardcover
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A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea by Sarvasy, Hannah

A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea

$222.00
A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea by Sarvasy, Hannah

A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea

$222.00
Format: Hardcover
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A Grammar of Nungon is the most comprehensive modern reference grammar of a language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Nungon is a previously-undescribed Finisterre-Huon Papuan language spoken by about 1,000 people in the Saruwaged Mountains, Morobe Province. Hannah Sarvasy provides a rich description of the language in its cultural context, based on original immersion fieldwork. The exposition is extraordinarily thorough, covering phonetics, phonology, word classes, morphology, grammatical relations, switch-reference, valency, complex predicates, clause combining, possession, information structure, and the pragmatics of communication. Four complete interlinearized Nungon monologues and dialogues supplement the copious textual examples. A Grammar of Nungon sets a new standard of thoroughness for reference works on languages of this region.

Author: Hannah Sarvasy
ISBN-10: 9004337504
ISBN-13: 9789004337503
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2017
Pages: 637
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.70d
By Hannah Sarvasy
By Hannah Sarvasy
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Hannah S. Sarvasy, PhD (2015), James Cook University, is Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She has published on Nungon, Finisterre Papuan languages, and other topics, and taught at UCLA.

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