[PapuanLanguages] A grammar of Manambu, OUP

[Alexandra Aikhenvald]

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> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:48:56
> From: Jennifer Clark [jennifer.clark at oup.com]
> Subject: The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea: Aikhenvald
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> Title: The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea 
> Publication Year: 2008 
> Publisher: Oxford University Press
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> Book URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199539819 
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> Author: Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
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> Hardback: ISBN: 9780199539819 Pages: 736 Price: U.K. £ 90.00
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> Abstract:
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> This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu
> language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family,
> and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak,
> Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district.
> About 200-400 speakers live in the cities of Port Moresby, Wewak, Lae, and
> Madang; and a few live in Kokopo and Mount Hagen. The book is based
> entirely on the author's fieldwork.
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> After an introductory account of the language and its speakers, Professor
> Aikhenvald devotes chapters to phonology, grammatical relations, word
> classes, gender, semantics, number, case, possession, derivation and
> compounding, pronouns, morphology, verbs, mood and modality, negation,
> clauses, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, the lexicon, current directions
> of change, and genetic relationship to other languages. The description is
> presented in a clear style in a framework that will be comprehensible to
> all linguists and linguistic anthropologists. 
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> Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
> Language Documentation
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> Subject Language(s): Manambu (mle)
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> Written In: English (eng)
 
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA
Professor and Academic Co-ordinator 
RCLT
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic, 3086
Australia
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http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/aikhenvald.htm
 
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From: papuanlanguages-bounces at anu.edu.au on behalf of Ian Tupper
Sent: Tue 9/09/2008 1:27 PM
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Subject: [PapuanLanguages] Advance notice - Kwomtari phonology and grammar (Data Papers on PNG Languages vol 55)



The next volume in SIL's series "Data Papers on Papua New Guinea 
Languages" will shortly be sent for printing. The title will be

"Kwomtari Phonology and Grammar Essentials" (vol. 55 in the series).
Kwomtari is a language of Sandaun (West Sepik) Province, Papua New
Guinea, belonging to a small family of five or six languages. The volume
will present the first published description of this language of a very
poorly known Papuan family; material is available on only one other
language in the family (Fas).

Release date is expected to be around Nov / Dec 2008. Cost will be
around US$15 - 20 plus postage, payable in US, PNG or Australian
currency. The publication will also be freely available freely from our
website http://www.sil.org/pacific/png shortly after that date.

Please email us at *LR-acpub at sil.org.pg* if you are not on our regular
distribution list and would like to receive this publication in
hardcopy. Replies are requested by 15 Sept to enable the print run to be
adjusted. Replies are not required if you are on our regular
distribution list.

Ian Tupper
for SIL-PNG Academic Publications
Ukarumpa, PNG


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