A grammar of Nganasan / by Beáta Wagner-Nagy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner-Nagy, Beáta Boglárka, author.

Series:

Grammars and sketches of the World's languages. Indigenous languages of Russia.

Grammars and sketches of the World's languages. Indigenous languages of Russia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nganasan language--Grammar.

Nganasan language.

Grammar.

Physical Description:

xvii, 583 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

With this descriptive grammar of Nganasan Beata 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. 0The grammar reflects significant typological aspects thus serving as a reasonable basis for further comparison in Uralic studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004382756

9004382755

OCLC:

1043561633

Publisher Number:

99978800974