A Grammar of Nganasan

By Beata Wagner-Nagy

With this descriptive grammar of Nganasan Be ta Wagner-Nagy presents a comprehensive description of the highly endangered Samoyedic language, spoken only by a small number of individuals on Siberia's Taimyr Peninsula. Based on corpus data from the Nganasan Spoken Language Corpus as well as field work the grammar follows a traditional structure. Contents range from a description of phonetic features and phonological processes over word classes, morphological features to syntactic and semantic properties. The grammar highlights morphophonological alternations as well as the pragmatic organization of Nganasan. A discussion of the core vocabulary completes the account in addition to two sample texts.
The grammar reflects significant typological aspects thus serving as a reasonable basis for further comparison in Uralic studies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004382755
• ISBN13: 9789004382756
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"