Quantification in Nungon

Hannah Sarvasy

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-44330-0_12

Quantification in Nungon

Hannah Sarvasy

Western Sydney University

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This chapter describes quantification in the Papuan language Nungon. After an introduction to Nungon grammar, various types of quantifiers are discussed. All example sentences were gleaned from elicitation sessions or a Nungon texts corpus (collected between June 2011 and August 2013); these total 146,700 words.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language. Volume II
Editors	Denis Paperno, Edward L. Keenan
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Pages	609-663
Number of pages	55
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319443300
ISBN (Print)	9783319443287
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44330-0_12
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Keywords

Nungon language
Papua New Guinea
Papuan languages
grammar

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