A Grammar of Nama: A Papuan Language of Southern New Guinea

Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea. It is a member of the Nambu subgroup of the Yam family of languages (also known as the Morehead-Upper Maro family). This grammar is the first published comprehensive description of a language in this subgroup. Nama has an interesting complex morphology with 21 nominal suffixes (17 case-marking) and 31 verbal prefixes and suffixes, indexing arguments (person/number) and indicating tense (current, recent, remote) and aspect (perfective/imperfective, inceptive, punctual, delimited, durative). Nama also has some linguistic features that are either very rare or not attested in other languages.

• | Author: Jeff Siegel
• | Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00369 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 3112215087
• | ISBN-13: 9783112215081