Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
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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 in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. The book is based entirely on the author's fieldwork.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958823-7
- EAN: 9780199588237
- Produktnummer: 23321328
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 732 S.
- Masse: H17.1 cm x B24.6 cm x D4.8 cm 1'279 g
- Gewicht: 1279
Über den Autor
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990; second edition 2009). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the lastspeaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages.Other books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) and Evidentiality (2004, paperback 2006), all published by OUP. She is co-editor with R. M. W. Dixon of the OUP series Explorations in Linguistic Typology, the fifth volume of which, The Semantics of Clause Linking, appeared in 2009.
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