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dc.contributor.authorBarlow, Russell
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-01T11:40:05Z
dc.date.available2020-09-01T11:40:05Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20200901_9781760463830_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41548
dc.description.abstractThis book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branch of the Keram family. A Sketch Grammar of Pondi includes ethnographic information, with ample discussion of language vitality and endangerment. The grammatical description begins with phonetics and phonology, before turning to major and minor word classes. The description of nominal morphology focuses especially on Pondi’s irregular number affixation and stem alternation, while the description of verbal morphology is largely concerned with aspect and mood suffixation. Syntax is discussed both at the level of the phrase and at the level of the clause. Topics in syntax, such as questions, commands, negation and conditionals are discussed. Following the grammatical description, there is a lexicon of over 600 Pondi words, presented both as a Pondi-to-English word list and as an English-to-Pondi finder list.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands::1MK Oceania::1MKL Melanesia::1MKLP New Guinea::1MKLPN Papua New Guineaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2P Oceanic and Austronesian languages::2PC Papuan languagesen_US
dc.subject.otherPondi
dc.subject.otherPapua New Guinea
dc.subject.otherlinguistics
dc.subject.otherlanguage
dc.subject.othergrammar
dc.subject.otherUlmapo
dc.subject.otherKeram
dc.titleA Sketch Grammar of Pondi
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/SGP.2020
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71


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