| Nativename | Koroko |
|---|---|
| States | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sandaun Province |
| Date | 2003 |
| Ref | e18 |
| Familycolor | Papuan |
| Fam 1 | Torricelli |
| Fam 2 | Wapei |
| Iso 3 | van |
| Glotto | valm1241 |
| Glottorefname | Walman |
Walman (or Valman) is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Matthew S. Dryer and Lea Brown of the University at Buffalo are currently writing a grammar of Walman. They have also published a paper showing that the word for 'and' in Walman that connects two nouns (as in "John and Mary") is actually a verb, with the first conjunct as subject and the second conjunct as object.[1]
References
- ^ Brown, Lea, and Matthew S. Dryer (2008) The verbs for 'and' in Walman, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Language 84 (3), 528–565.