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oapen-20.500.12657-456462023-06-05T13:08:47Z A grammar of Komnzo Döhler, Christian Linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFL Palaeography (history of writing)::CFLA Writing systems, alphabets Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo provides many fields of future research, but the most interesting aspect of its structure lies in the verb morphology, to which the two largest chapters of the grammar are dedicated. Komnzo verbs may index up to two arguments showing agreement in person, number and gender. Verbs encode 18 TAM categories, valency, directionality and deictic status. Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories that verbs may express, but also in the way these are encoded. 2019-04-18 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T10:31:44Z 2020-04-01T10:31:44Z 2019-01-04 book 1004851 OCN: 1081335651 2363-5568 9783961101252 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45646 eng Studies in Diversity Linguistics application/pdf n/a 1004851.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.1477799 10.5281/zenodo.1477799 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961101252 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press Berlin 104791 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo provides many fields of future research, but the most interesting aspect of its structure lies in the verb morphology, to which the two largest chapters of the grammar are dedicated. Komnzo verbs may index up to two arguments showing agreement in person, number and gender. Verbs encode 18 TAM categories, valency, directionality and deictic status. Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories that verbs may express, but also in the way these are encoded.
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