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Numbami grammar in ethnohistorical context / Joel Bradshaw.
Van Pelt Library PL6280.N861 B73 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradshaw, Joel, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Oceanic linguistics special publication ; no. 42.
- Oceanic linguistics special publications ; no. 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Numbami language--Grammar.
- Numbami language.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 131 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798880701957
- OCLC:
- 1456586982
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