Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.151 on: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:51:12 Smithsonian Institution,Washington DC,USA had itnotbeencutshort. been, have might life Rockefeller’s what wonder one make does certainly it exhibition, beautiful and intimate an been have must what reproduces almost anything on the expedition as “It’s unbelievable!” While the catalogue men had a strong affection for Rockefeller, recalling fondly his response to startling. mourning process and the seemingly innocuous image becomes much more the of part as sacrificed been just had fingers girls’ the that realize you text accompanying Gardner’s reading air.After the in held and leaves banana in bound arms their of one with each girls, Dani two of photograph the is their with there Then departed. recently women the towards presumably outstretched, Dani arms the of those particularly mourning, in Dani the conditions for“aculturetoexpressitselfunselfconsciously.” ideal the as describes Getzels Peter filmmaker documentary fellow what to the about writes Burbriski essay, his advantages of In documenting warrior. a culture within another the context on of conflict, rests referring head boy,Dani a whose from arrow an extricating delicately man Dani a depicts arrow” embedded an “Removing or battle in wounded warrior a shoulders their on carrying “Woundedmen titled Warrior”captures photograph the taken by documentary photographers during the Vietnam War. For example, capture them during battle, images that Bubriski compares to photographs subjects. The Dani men are the focus camera of most of the photographs and many Rockefeller’s with playing men equipment—photographs Dani that of are indicative or of games Rockefeller’s secrets playing rapport sharing children with and his Dani of images include moments lighter the of than inmostothergrammars ofPapuanlanguages. quality and the range of topics covered in the grammar is substantially wider timely) addition to Papuan linguistics; the grammar is crafted to the highest Malay. Aikhenvald’s grammar of the Manambu language disappearingis undera themomentous shadow rapidly of(and are trade many languages remainand like documented them Tok inadequately of Pisin or most and undocumented Papuan world, the in languages Papuan so or 800 the Of cloth. ISBN978-0-19-953981-9. US$180.00, photos.) B&W maps, (Tables,figures, pp. 702 xxv, 2008. Press, Laki. YuanengLuma Agnes Pauline and YuamaliAla Jacklyn of assistance the Y.with Alexandra Aikhenvald, By THE MANAMBU LANGUAGE OF EAST , . It is clear from the foreword by Gardner and Bubriski’s essay, that both of took Rockefeller that those are images powerful most the Perhaps Electronic BookReview:Southeast Asia New York and Oxford: Oxford University YorkOxfordOxford: New and J r e f i n n e W G A e i l e

41 Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.151 on: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:51:12 17 discusses the complex predicates, which in Manambu are predicates predicates are Manambu in which predicates, complex the discusses 17 kay-b prefix causative the as such devices, valency-changing and (378) on directionals, such as the suffix discussions combines 16 Chapter meanings. their (338)—and cover” put) as compounding—such verb of types various discuses 15 modality, and chapter 14 outlines strategies of indicating negation. Chapter various verbal categories like tense and aspect, chapter 13 discussesby movingitsideto(acrossandinward)”(247).Chapter 12dealswith mood and nominal example, (e.g., predicates non-verbal for Manambu, in Verbslong forms. quite root be verb can and predicates) verbs, of structure the discusses nas nominalizations: action derives which reduplication, indicating possession. of ways numerous the outlines 8 Chapter “with”). plus (“to” instrumental case conflations like accusative–locative (object plus “at”/”in”) and allative– Chapter 7 is on nominal cases: there are nine case markers, with interesting more). or (three singular,plural number: and grammatical (two), on dual is 6 Chapter entities. inanimate round and/or small with correlates gender feminine with gender; grammatical on entities, masculine gender correlates with long and/or large entities, while is 5 Chapter noun-oriented. postpositions andinterjections. as such classes non-noun-like with deals 4 chapter whereas numerals, and “closed classes” and deals with noun-like classes such as personal pronouns called also is 10 chapter Interestingly, words. modal like words, of classes verbs,nouns, adjectivesManambu: in (which classes numberword aroundvarious 20 the in of total),properties adverbsthe anddiscusses other closed 4 Chapter subject. the than topical more are they when only indexed are non-subjects other and objects whereas verbs, finite on indexed always are behave very differently from all non-subject relations. For instance, subjects right edge(i.e.,end)ofasentence. the before patterns intonational the on said be could more but languages, “catch!” (47). The section on intonation is lengthy for grammars of Papuan and stress is contrastive, for example, for contrastive, is stress and consonants 21 vowels, 9 are there phonology: with society.deals 2 Chapter Manambu in names of ownership the and houses of structure the as such the language and discusses a wide array of fascinating ethnographic topics, well-known Ndu . Chapter 1 provides a linguistic summary of

42 ə nas, “counting”(179). Chapters 11 to 19 concentrate on verb-oriented issues. Chapter 11 11 Chapter issues. verb-oriented on concentrate 19 to 11 Chapters root verb is example an derivation; and compounding on is 9 Chapter more are which categories grammatical with deal 8 to 5 Chapters Subjects Manambu. in relations grammatical the introduces 3 Chapter Manambu is spoken along the Sepik River and belongs to the relatively ə tuku, “cause-to-be blown-up” or “pump (something)” (407)). Chapter kay-kwa-taka-saki-sala-kwa-k-na-wun- Pacific Affairs: Pacific Affairs: Volume 83,No.2–June2010 s ə w ə l, ák “inside or away from the Sepik River” ə “habitual negation,” while negation,” “habitual s, ə I il e orn (liquid) pouring be will “I k, nas(ə t “count,” while “count,” )-, ə p -taka-, “(close- ə-taka-, as in as kay- ak ə ´ s, Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.151 on: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:51:12 involving two separate words, e.g., École deshautesétudesensciencessociales,Paris,France interested inNewGuineageneral. anyone and languages Papuan in interested linguists any to valuable most be would publication This argumentation. in-depth of amount sumptuous linguists and other human scientists who would benefit immensely from the junior to appeal would grammar this why precisely is this hand, other the On have?”). Manambu does cases many “how §7.10 (e.g., explanation of point (to a professional linguist) is accompanied by an overwhelming amount minor relatively a sometimes times; at meticulous too it find might linguist lists,14pagesintotal. pages intotal,andvocabulary/affix 38 texts, lengthy three are 22 chapter Following language. the of viability the use of and English in Manambu language and society and the Manambu’s relationship with the other languages in the area. It m also discusses of more than 20 notable words: chapter on the ethnography of interesting speaking an in is Manambu 21 and Chapter also organization. the discourse semantics and focus) discourse the pragmatic significance of the order of constituents in a clause (e.g., for clause isthesameordifferent. Manambu indicate switch-reference, that is, whether the subject of the next in clauses chained of types most languages, Papuan other many to Similar clauses. dependent of types various and chaining clause on discussions detailed contain 19 and 18 Chapters (432). resigned” “having or subject” ə gi-, “do whatever, happen (whatever),” for instance. Chapter 22 discusses The detail in this grammar is meticulous. Nonetheless, a professional a Nonetheless, meticulous. is grammar this in detail The Manambu, in clauses and phrases of syntax the outlines 20 Chapter Electronic BookReview:Southeast Asia k ə -, “eat, drink, smoke,” and the “lazy” verb resain t ə -ku. “resign have-completive same H o i r á l i D e S s u o

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