The Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

Author/Creator:

A�ikhenval�d, A. �I�U. (Aleksandra �I�Ur�evna), author

Publication/Creation:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald ; with the assistance of Jacklyn Yuamali Ala and Pauline Agnes Yuaneng Luma Laki

Series Titles:

Oxford linguistics
Oxford scholarship online
Oxford linguistics.
Oxford scholarship online.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Yuamali Ala, Jacklyn, contributor
Luma Laki, Pauline Agnes, contributor

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Manambu language--Grammar
Ndu languages--Papua New Guinea--East Sepik Province
Endangered languages--Papua New Guinea--East Sepik Province

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Contents; 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
1.4 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
2.2.2 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
3.2 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
4.5.2 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
5.3 Overt gender marking

Summary:

Based on the author's fieldwork, this text is a comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2500 people in five villages in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (729 p.)

General Note:

Series from jkt.
Formerly CIP.
Previously issued in print: 2008.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936712984502486

ISBN:

1-383-04479-1
1-281-82571-9
9786611825713
0-19-156166-5

OCLC Number:

476245722
1406781206

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.1093/oso/9780199539819.001.0001