A Grammar of Nungon

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A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea

Hannah Sarvasy

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Brill
23 March 2017

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Series: Mainland and Insular South East Asia

A Grammar of Nungon is the most comprehensive modern reference grammar of a language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Nungon is a previously-undescribed Finisterre-Huon Papuan language spoken by about 1,000 people in the Saruwaged Mountains, Morobe Province. Hannah Sarvasy provides a rich description of the language in its cultural context, based on original immersion fieldwork. The exposition is extraordinarily thorough, covering phonetics, phonology, word classes, morphology, grammatical relations, switch-reference, valency, complex predicates, clause combining, possession, information structure, and the pragmatics of communication. Four complete interlinearized Nungon monologues and dialogues supplement the copious textual examples. A Grammar of Nungon

sets a new standard of thoroughness for reference works on languages of this region.

By: Hannah Sarvasy
Imprint: Brill
Edition: xxii. 629 pp., index
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 1.156kg
ISBN: 9789004337503
ISBN 10: 9004337504
Series: Mainland and Insular South East Asia
Pages: 659
Publication Date: 23 March 2017
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hannah S. Sarvasy, PhD (2015), James Cook University, is Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She has published on Nungon, Finisterre Papuan languages, and other topics, and taught at UCLA.

Reviews for A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea

My minor critical comments and tentative alternative proposals do not diminish in any way my great admiration for this grammar, which forms an exemplary model and sets a high standard for future grammarians of New Guinea languages. Precisely because the exposition is so clear and the description so rich, the book both allows and invites the reader to participate in the scholarly conversation about Nungon, so brilliantly started by Hannah Sarvasy in this book. - Lourens de Vries, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in: Oceanic Linguistics, 2018