29.4640, Books: A grammar of Ma Manda: Dixon (ed.), Pennington

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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 23:36:48
From: Ulrich Ulrich [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A grammar of Ma Manda: Dixon (ed.), Pennington

 


Title: A grammar of Ma Manda 
Subtitle: A Papuan language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea 
Series Title: Outstanding grammars from Australia 18  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/OGFAUS-18-A-grammar-of-Ma-Manda/en 


Author: Ryan Pennington
Editor: RMW Dixon

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862889167 Pages: 663 Price: Europe EURO 188.00


Abstract:

This is a grammar of Ma Manda, a Papuan (non-Austronesian) language of Papua
New Guinea. Ma Manda is spoken by 1600 people located in the southern slopes
of the Saruwaged Range, in the Huon Peninsula of Morobe Province.

The grammar is divided into eight parts. Part I is an introduction, focusing
on the language and its people, and then on scope, methodology, and a
typological overview. Part II addresses phonology, with chapters on phonemes
and orthography, phonotactics, morphophonemics, prosody, and the phonological
word. Part III addresses word classes, with chapters for every open class, and
one on closed classes. Part IV addresses the noun phrase, including chapters
on NP structure, possession, grammatical relations, number, and coordination.
Part V addresses deixis, with a chapter each on pronouns and demonstratives.
Part VI addresses the verb and verb phrase, with chapters on morphology and
complex predicates, and then a chapter for every category expressed in the
predicate: tense, aspect, pluractionality, reality status, and modality. Part
VII addresses the clause, including verbless clauses, mood, and
clause-linking. Part VIII addresses discourse, focusing on information
structure, rhetorical devices, and bridging constructions. The analysis is
supported by culturally-embedded examples from a recorded text corpus. The
appendix presents these as interlinear texts, which form the backbone of the
analysis presented in the description.

The result is a comprehensive preservation of this endangered language for its
speakers, and for linguistic and anthropological scholars working in the
Papuan arena.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation


Written In: English  (eng)

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