Numbami Grammar in Ethnohistorical Context.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradshaw, Joel.

Series:

Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Numbami language--Grammar.

Numbami language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Numbami is an Austronesian language spoken by perhaps 200 people with ties to a single village called Siboma in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Numbami is a phonologically conservative isolate within the Huon Gulf family of languages. Topics covered in this text include Genealogy and Ethnohistory, Phonology, Morphology, Word Classes, Verb Semantics, Noun Phrases, Clause Boundary Markers, Verb Serialization, and Text Analysis"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 Fieldwork

1.2 Data Sources

1.3 Acknowledgments

2. Genealogy and Ethnohistory

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Austronesian Subgroups around the Huon Gulf

2.3 Patterns of Contact and Movement around the Huon Gulf

2.4 Austronesian-Papuan Contacts Along the Southeast Coast

2.5 European Contact

3. Phonology

3.1 Phoneme Contrasts

3.1.1 Obstruents

3.1.2 Sonorant consonants

3.1.3 Vowels

3.2 Word Stress

3.3 Assimilations and Reductions

4. Morphology

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Verbals

4.2.1 Verbs

4.2.1.1 Subject and mood prefixes

4.2.1.2 Locative prefixes

4.2.2 Adverbials

4.2.3 Ideophones

4.3 Nominals

4.3.1 Nominalizations

4.3.2 Pronouns

4.3.3 Demonstratives

4.3.4 Numerals

4.3.5 Kin terms

4.3.6 Birth-order names

4.3.7 Collective plurals

4.3.8 Body parts

5. Word Classes

5.1 Nouns

5.2 Adjectives and Adverbs

5.3 Body-part Idioms

5.3.1 Body-part idioms with adjectives

5.3.2 Body-part idioms with verbs

5.4 Quantifiers

5.5 Verbs

5.6 Prepositions

5.7 Resultatives

5.8 Question Words

6. Core Verb Semantics

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Polysemous Light Verbs

6.2.1 SAY verbs

6.2.2 PUT verbs

6.2.3 FEAR verbs

6.3 Complementarity

6.3.1 STAY verbs: location

6.3.2 MOVE verbs: manner of motion

6.3.3 GO verbs: deictic direction

6.3.4 AIM verbs: trajectory of motion

6.3.5 REACH verbs: goal or destination

6.4 Frequency in Narrative Text

7. Noun Phrases

7.1 Word Order and Coordination

7.2 Adjectival Modifiers

7.3 Genitive Modifiers

7.3.1 Whole-part genitives

7.3.2 Possessive genitives

7.3.3 Attributive genitives

7.4 Relative Clauses

7.4.1 Nonspecific relatives

7.4.2 True relative clauses

7.4.2.1 Grammatical roles in matrix and subordinate clauses.

7.4.2.2 Headless relatives and time clauses

7.4.2.3 Purposive relative clauses

7.4.2.4 Relatives marked with deictics

7.4.2.5 Elision of clause-final marker

8. Clause Boundary Markers

8.1 Intonation

8.2 Coordination

8.3 Subordination

8.3.1 Complement clauses

8.3.2 Adverbial clauses

8.3.3 Negation

8.3.4 Aspectual adverbs

8.4 Tense/Mood/Aspect in Verbal Clauses

9. Verb Serialization

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Serialization vs. Coordination and Subordination

9.3 Subject Relationships across Serialized VPs

9.3.1 Same-subject serialization

9.3.2 Switch-subject serialization

9.3.3 Adverbial serialization

9.3.4 "Ambient serialization"

9.4 Path Serialization

9.4.1 Introduction

9.4.2 Manner of motion

9.4.3 Deictic direction

9.4.4 Trajectory of motion

9.4.5 Goal or destination

10. Text Analysis

10.1 Storytelling Onsets and Codas

10.2 Topic Marking

10.3 Anaphoric Determiners

10.3.1 Demonstratives

10.3.2 The determiner manu 'aforesaid, aforementioned'

10.4 Tail-Head Linkage

10.5 Null Subjects

10.5.1 Introduction

10.5.2 Text A: Women's work cooking food

10.5.3 Text B: The thing known as sago

10.5.4 Conclusions

11. Appendix Texts

Appendix A: Women's Work Cooking Food

Appendix B: The Thing Known as Sago

Appendix C: Sago Work

References

Index

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Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-8070-221-3

OCLC:

1518045524