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 (id est Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo bra...

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Main Author: Barlow, Russell (Author)
Corporate Author: Australian National University Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2020.
Series:Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Phonetics and phonology
  • 3. Nominal morphology (number)
  • 4. Verbal morphology
  • 5. Other word classes
  • 6. Phrase-level syntax
  • 7. Clause-level syntax
  • 8. The syntax of sentences
  • 9. Lexicon.