Grammar of Nganasan

Beáta Wagner-Nagy, Ph.D. (2000) University of Szeged (Hungary), is Professor of Finno-Ugric/Uralic studies at the University of Hamburg. She has published several articles and books on Samoyedic languages as well as linguistic typology.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceAbbreviations and SymbolsTables, Figures and Maps1 Introduction1 The People2 The Language3 Language Data2 Phonetics and Phonology1 Consonants2 Vowels3 Possible Combinations of Consonants and Vowels4 Syllable Structure5 Syllabification6 Prosodic Characteristics7 Morphophonological Rules3 Word Classes1 Nouns2 Adjectives3 Verbs4 Pronominal Items5 Adverbs6 Postposition7 Numerals and Quantifiers8 Conjunctions und Particles9 Interjections and Onomatopoetic Words4 Nominal Inflection1 Stems and Their Formation2 Number and Its Usage3 Case and Its Functions4 Possessive Inflection5 Destinative5 Verbal Inflection1 Conjugation Types and Agreement2 Aspect3 Tense4 Mood5 Stems6 Aspect7 Conjugations Types8 Tense9 Mood and Modality10 Non-finite Verb Forms6 Evidentiality1 Inferred Evidentiality2 Reported Evidentiality3 Sensory Evidentiality7 Verbal Valence and Valence-Changing Operations1 Verbal Valence2 Valence-Changing Operations8 The Structure of the Noun Phrase1 Attributive Modifiers2 Determined Noun Phrase (DP)3 Quantified Noun Phrase4 Noun Phrase as Modifier5 Constituent Order in NPs6 Coordination within NP and Comitative Constructions7 Definiteness within the NP9 Types of Predicate1 Verbal Predication2 Non-verbal Predicate3 Existential and Locative Clauses4 Possessive Clauses10 Simple Sentences1 Clause Participant and Grammatical Relations in Sentences2 Basic Sentence Types3 Constituent Order4 Comparative Constructions11 Ditransitive Constructions1 Coding of Recipient and Addressee2 Coding the Beneficiary3 Coding the Theme12 Negation1 Sentence Negation2 Constituent Negation3 Other Negative Constructions13 Clause Combining1 Coordination2 Complementation3 Adverbial Clauses4 Relative Clauses14 Discourse Organization1 Word Order and Information Structuring2 Reference Tracking3 Direct and Indirect Speech15 Lexicon1 Noun Class Semantics and Sub-classification2 Adjective Class Semantics and Sub-classification3 Verb Class Semantics and Sub-classification4 Loanwords16 Word Formation1 Compounding2 Conversion3 Broadening and Narrowing of Meaning4 Word Creation5 Stem Vowel Alternation6 Derivation7 Clitic-Like Morphemes17 Text Samples1 My Life2 Nenets Man and the GiantReferencesIndex