LEADER 05572nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910453301703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-82571-9 010 $a9786611825713 010 $a0-19-156166-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000554212 035 $a(EBL)415913 035 $a(OCoLC)476245722 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000197291 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11189774 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197291 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10160962 035 $a(PQKB)10716664 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415913 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415913 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10254523 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL182571 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000554212 100 $a20080414d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea$b[electronic resource] /$fAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald ; with the assistance of Jacklyn Yuamali Ala and Pauline Agnes Luma Laki 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (729 p.) 225 1 $aOxford linguistics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-953981-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [679]-687) and indexes. 327 $aContents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Charts, Schemes, and Tables; Organization and Cross-references; Abbreviations and Conventions; Map 1. Location of Manambu villages; 1 Introduction: The Language and its Speakers; 1.1 Linguistic type; 1.2 The Manambu: the present and the past; 1.2.1 Environment and subsistence; 1.2.2 The Manambu villages; 1.2.3 Dwelling patterns: the structure of villages; 1.2.4 Houses and their structure; 1.3 Social organization, kinship, and name ownership; 1.3.1 Clan membership, kinship, and mortuary ritual; 1.3.2 Name ownership and name debates 327 $a1.4 Relationships with neighbours and recent history 1.4.1 Indigenous neighbours and traditional warfare; 1.4.2 Relationships with outsiders; 1.5 Linguistic affiliation and prehistory; 1.5.1 The Ndu language family; 1.5.2 The varieties of Manambu; 1.5.3 Origins and putative prehistory; 1.6 Linguistic situation; 1.7 What we know about the Manambu language; 1.8 Basis for this study; Appendix 1.1 Early documentation of Manambu; 2 Phonology; 2.1 Segmental phonology; 2.1.1 Consonants; 2.1.2 Vowels; 2.1.3 Unusual phonetic patterns; 2.2 Syllable structure; 2.2.1 Syllable types 327 $a2.2.2 Vowel sequences and diphthongs 2.3 Stress; 2.3.1 Stress assignment; 2.3.2 Stress shift; 2.4 Phonological structure of morphemes and syllable weight; 2.4.1 Phonological structure of verbal and non-verbal roots; 2.4.2 Syllable weight and evidence for iambic stress in verbs; 2.5 Phonological word; 2.5.1 General properties; 2.5.2 When one grammatical word corresponds to more than one phonological word; 2.5.3 When two or three grammatical words form one phonological word; 2.6 Phonological processes; 2.7 Intonation patterns; 3 Grammatical Relations; 3.1 Cross-referencing 327 $a3.2 Grammatical relations marked on noun phrases 3.3 'Reactivated topic' demonstratives; 3.4 Grammatical relations in Manambu: a summary; 4 Word Classes; 4.1 Nouns; 4.1.1 Morphophonological subclasses of nouns; 4.1.2 Semantically and grammatically determined subclasses of nouns; 4.2 Verbs; 4.2.1 Verbal grammatical categories; 4.2.2 Semantically and grammatically determined subclasses of verbs; 4.3 Adjectives; 4.3.1 Agreeing and non-agreeing adjectives; 4.3.2 Adjectives in comparison with nouns and verbs; 4.3.3 Semantics of adjectives; 4.4 Adverbs; 4.5 Closed classes; 4.5.1 Modal words 327 $a4.5.2 Postpositions 4.5.3 Particles and connectives; 4.5.4 Interjections and onomatopoeia; 4.5.5 'Pro-sentences'; 4.5.6 Word class assignment of loans and code-switches; 5 Gender Marking, Semantics, and Agreement; 5.1 Gender and number agreement: contexts and forms; 5.1.1 Agreement contexts; 5.1.2 Gender and number agreement forms; 5.1.3 Additional gender and number forms; 5.1.4 Functions of gender and number agreement; 5.2 How to choose a gender: semantics, and markedness relationships; 5.2.1 The semantics of gender choice; 5.2.2 Mismatches in gender agreement; 5.2.3 Markedness relations 327 $a5.3 Overt gender marking 330 $aThis book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. 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