Comparison, Contrast and Similarity in Yalaku
Yalaku, a Ndu language from the Middle Sepik region of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, has no dedicated comparative construction — just like an overwhelming majority of Papuan languages of New Guinea (de Vries 2015). After a brief outline of typological features of the language, we turn...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dartmouth College Library
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistic Discovery |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.483 |
| Summary: | Yalaku, a Ndu language from the Middle Sepik region of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, has no dedicated comparative construction — just like an overwhelming majority of Papuan languages of New Guinea (de Vries 2015). After a brief outline of typological features of the language, we turn to the ways of expressing comparative meanings. The expression of similarity is the topic of §3. The last section contains a summary. |
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| ISSN: | 1537-0852 |