| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 446 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Series |
Studies in diversity linguistics, 2363-5568 ; 22 |
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Studies in diversity linguistics ; 22.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Preliminaries -- Chapter 2: Phonology -- Chapter 3: Word classes -- Chapter 4: Nominal morphology -- Chapter 5: Verb morphology -- Chapter 6: Tense, aspect and mood -- Chapter 7: Syntax of the noun phrase -- Chapter 8: Clausal syntax -- Chapter 9: Complex syntax -- Chapter 10: Information structure -- Chapter 11: Aspects of the lexicon |
| Summary |
Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo provides many fields of future research, but the most interesting aspect of its structure lies in the verb morphology, to which the two largest chapters of the grammar are dedicated. Komnzo verbs may index up to two arguments showing agreement in person, number and gender. Verbs encode 18 TAM categories, valency, directionality and deictic status. Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories that verbs may express, but also in the way these are encoded |
| Analysis |
Linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
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In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Language Science Press Web site, viewed on January 10, 2017) |
| Subject |
Writing systems, alphabets.
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Language and languages -- Grammar
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| SUBJECT |
Papua New Guinea -- Languages -- Grammar
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| Subject |
Papua New Guinea
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3961101256 |
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9783961101269 |
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3961101264 |
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3961101493 |
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9783961101498 |
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9783961101252 |
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