, Books: Language Documentation/General Linguistics: Aikhenvald

[Alexandra Aikhenvald]

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> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:48:56
> From: Jennifer Clark [jennifer.clark at oup.com]
> Subject: The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea: Aikhenvald
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> Title: The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea 
> Publication Year: 2008 
> Publisher: Oxford University Press
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> Book URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199539819 
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> Author: Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
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> Hardback: ISBN: 9780199539819 Pages: 736 Price: U.K. £ 90.00
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> Abstract:
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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.
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> 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. 
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> Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
> Language Documentation
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> Subject Language(s): Manambu (mle)
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> Written In: English (eng)
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