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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69 s/w Tabellen, 3 s/w Abbildungen, 19 farbige Abbildungen
3 b/w and 19 col. ill., 69 b/w tbl.
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978-3-11-107711-6 (9783111077116)
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DNB DDC Sachgruppen
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Warengruppensystematik 2.0
Jeff Siegel, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Jeff Siegel, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.