Valency in Nen

Nicholas Evans

doi:10.1515/9783110429343-006

Valency in Nen

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Nen, (Ethnologue Code NQN) is a language of the Morehead-Maro Family of Southern New Guinea, also known as Nen Ym or Nen Zi (pronounced [nÉ›n dÊ’i]). The Morehead-Maro family, with around a dozen members3, straddles two modern nations, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Indonesia (Merauke district), in a low-lying area bounded to the north and east by the Fly River, to the south by the Torres Strait which separates New Guinea from Australia, and to the east by the Maro river.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Valency Classes in the World's Languages, Volume 2: Case Studies from Austronesia and the pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook
Editors	Andrej Malchukov and Bernard Comrie
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	De Gruyter Mouton
Pages	1069-1116
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9783110438444
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110429343-006
Publication status	Published - 2015

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