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Title

  • A sketch grammar of Pondi

Summary

  • 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 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.

Names

  • Barlow, Russell, author
  • Australian National University Press

Created / Published

  • Acton ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2020.
  • ©2020

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.

Headings

  • -  Language and culture--Papua New Guinea--East Sepik Province
  • -  Papuan languages
  • -  East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea)--Languages--Grammar
  • -  Papua New Guinea--Languages--Grammar

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200).
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xiv, 200 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PL6621.P66

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020719433

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Barlow, Russell, Author, and Australian National University Press. A sketch grammar of Pondi. Acton ACT, Australia: Australian National University Press, . ©, 2020. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719433/.

APA citation style:

Barlow, R. & Australian National University Press. (2020) A sketch grammar of Pondi. Acton ACT, Australia: Australian National University Press, . ©. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719433/.

MLA citation style:

Barlow, Russell, Author, and Australian National University Press. A sketch grammar of Pondi. Acton ACT, Australia: Australian National University Press, . ©, 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719433/>.