LEADER 02633nam 2200433 450 001 9910416121003321 005 20230613191921.0 010 $a1-76046-384-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011414008 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6402001 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011414008 100 $a20201207d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA sketch grammar of Pondi /$fRussell Barlow 210 1$aActon, Australian Capital Territory :$cAustralian National University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aAsia Pacific linguistics 311 $a1-76046-383-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetics and phonology -- 3. Nominal morphology (number) -- 4. Verbal morphology -- 5. Other word classes -- 6. Phrase-level syntax -- 7. Clause-level syntax -- 8. The syntax of sentences -- 9. Lexicon. 330 1 $aThis book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branch of the Keram family. A Sketch Grammar of Pondi includes ethnographic information, with ample discussion of language vitality and endangerment. The grammatical description begins with phonetics and phonology, before turning to major and minor word classes. The description of nominal morphology focuses especially on Pondi's irregular number affixation and stem alternation, while the description of verbal morphology is largely concerned with aspect and mood suffixation. Syntax is discussed both at the level of the phrase and at the level of the clause. Topics in syntax, such as questions, commands, negation and conditionals are discussed. Following the grammatical description, there is a lexicon of over 600 Pondi words, presented both as a Pondi-to-English word list and as an English-to-Pondi finder list. 606 $aPapuan languages 607 $aEast Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea)$xLanguages$xGrammar 607 $aPapua New Guinea$xLanguages$xGrammar 615 0$aPapuan languages. 676 $a499.12 700 $aBarlow$b Russell$0889026 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910416121003321 996 $aA sketch grammar of Pondi$91986350 997 $aUNINA