The Manambu Language Of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (oxford Linguistics)
by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald /
2009 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
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.