A Grammar of Nama: A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea

by Jeff Siegel

Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea. It is a member of the Nambu subgroup of the Yam family of languages (also known as the Morehead-Upper Maro family). This grammar is the first published comprehensive description of a language in this subgroup. Nama has an interesting complex morphology with 21 nominal suffixes (17 case-marking) and 31 verbal prefixes and suffixes, indexing arguments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311107661X
• ISBN13: 9783111076614
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"