Imperatives and commands in Nungon

Hannah S. Sarvasy

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Imperatives and commands in Nungon

Hannah S. Sarvasy

Western Sydney University

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This chapter stems from my research on the Towet village dialect of Nungon since 2011. Examples are drawn from a 146,700-word corpus including 222 transcribed texts and my field notes, and from one additional transcript involving conversation between a child Nium, aged 2;10 (labelled C in these examples), and his mother (labelled M).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Editors	Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	224-249
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Print)	9780198803225
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803225.003.0011
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Nungon language
Finisterre-Huon languages
phonology
vowels
Papuan languages
Papua New Guinea

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