Description
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9783111076614
Author Jeff Siegel
Format Hardback
Page Count 369
Imprint De Gruyter Mouton
Publisher De Gruyter
Weight(grams) 642g
