A Sketch Grammar of Pondi

This 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 branc...

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Hoofdauteur: Barlow, Russell
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description This 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-370672025-03-22T16:04:06Z A Sketch Grammar of Pondi Barlow, Russell Pondi Papua New Guinea linguistics language grammar Ulmapo Keram thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands::1MK Oceania::1MKL Melanesia::1MKLP New Guinea::1MKLPN Papua New Guinea thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2P Oceanic and Austronesian languages::2PC Papuan languages This 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. 2021-02-10T14:41:52Z 2021-02-10T14:41:52Z 2020-09-01T11:40:05Z 2020 book ONIX_20200901_9781760463830_5 OCN: 1175268668 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41548 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37067 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41548/1/9781760463830.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41548/1/9781760463830.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41548/1/9781760463830.pdf ANU Press 10.22459/SGP.2020 10.22459/SGP.2020 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 open access
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Barlow, Russell
A Sketch Grammar of Pondi
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