Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication
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Tonality In Austronesian Languages
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Author : Jerold A. Edmondson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Tonality In Austronesian Languages written by Jerold A. Edmondson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Austronesian languages categories.
Kokota Grammar
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Author : Bill Palmer
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2008-10-31
Kokota Grammar written by Bill Palmer and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This work describes the grammar of Kokota, a highly endangered Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands, spoken by about nine hundred people on the island of Santa Isabel. After several long periods among the Kokota, Dr. Palmer has written an unusually detailed and comprehensive description of the language. Kokota has never before been described, so this work makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the Oceanic languages of island Melanesia. Kokota Grammar examines the phonology of the language and includes a lengthy section on stress assignment. It continues with chapters on nouns and noun phrases, minor participant types, possession, argument structure, the verb complex, clause structure, imperative and interrogative constructions, and subordination and coordination (including verb serialization). The typological interest of Kokota, along with its degree of endangerment and the paucity of information on Northwest Solomonic languages in general, combined with the level of detail given in the volume, make this a work of considerable interest to Austronesian linguists, typologists, syntacticians, phonologists, and all who are involved in describing and documenting endangered languages.
Outline Of Sre Structure
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Author : Timothy M. Manley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Outline Of Sre Structure written by Timothy M. Manley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A Grammar Of South Efate
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Author : Nicholas Thieberger
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-07-31
A Grammar Of South Efate written by Nicholas Thieberger and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of PortVila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world’s smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software (Audiamus) developed in the course of the research. An included DVD provides a dictionary and finderlist, a set of interlinearized example texts and elicited sentences, and playable media versions of most example sentences and of the example texts.
A Grammar Of Mavea
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Author : Valérie Guérin
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2011-11-30
A Grammar Of Mavea written by Valérie Guérin and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Mavea, with an emphasis on the latter. Of particular interest are examples of individual speaker variation presented throughout the grammar; the presence of three linguo-labials (still used today by a single speaker) that were unexpectedly found before the rounded vowel /o/; and a chapter on numerals and the counting system, which have long been replaced by Bislama’s but are remembered by a handful of speakers. Most of the grammatical descriptions derive from a corpus of texts of various genres (conversations, traditional stories, personal histories, etc.) gathered during the author’s fieldwork, conducted for eleven months between 2005 and 2007.
Tinrin Grammar
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Author : Midori Osumi
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Tinrin Grammar written by Midori Osumi and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book presents an analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Tinrin, a previously undescribed Melanesian language of southern New Caledonia.
William J Gedney S Comparative Tai Source Book
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Author : Thomas John Hudak
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2007-12-03
William J Gedney S Comparative Tai Source Book written by Thomas John Hudak and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This volume provides accurate and reliable data from 1,159 common cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. Originally collected by noted Tai linguist, the late William J. Gedney, the data are organized into the three branches of the Tai language family, the Southwestern, the Central, and the Northern, to facilitate comparisons among the various sound systems within the individual branches and within the Tai language family as a whole. Supplementing the cognates are phonological descriptions of each of the dialects. Included among the nineteen dialects are Siamese, White Tai, Black Tai, Shan, Lue, Yay, Saek, and dialects found at Leiping, Lungming, Pingsiang, and Ningming in China. The meticulous attention paid to consonants, vowels, and tones found in each cognate will allow for further dialect studies, for the investigation of questions concerning the tripartite division of the Tai language family, and for the continuing investigation into the reconstruction of the Proto-Tai language family and its wider genetic relationships.
Bislama Reference Grammar
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Author : Terry Crowley
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2004-05-31
Bislama Reference Grammar written by Terry Crowley and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Bislama is the national language of Vanuatu, the world's most linguistically diverse nation with at least 80 actively spoken Oceanic languages used by about 200,000 people. Bislama began as a plantation pidgin based on English in the nineteenth century, but it has since developed into a unique language with a grammar and vocabulary very different from English. It is one of very few national languages for which there is no readily available reference grammar. This book aims to fill this gap by providing an extensive account of the grammar of Bislama as it is used by ordinary Ni-Vanuatu. It does not, therefore, aim to describe any kind of artificial written norm but sets out to capture a range of different kinds of ways that Ni-Vanuatu will say things in various contexts, both written and spoken, formal and informal. The thrust of this volume is to show that Bislama has a grammar—an unfamiliar concept for those educated in Vanuatu. It also shows that Bislama is a language of considerable complexity, which will come as a surprise to many of its users, who have been taught to view their language as somehow "simple" and even "deficient."
An Erromangan Sye Grammar
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Author : Terry Crowley
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1998-03-01
An Erromangan Sye Grammar written by Terry Crowley and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The languages of southern Vanuatu are structurally different from other Oceanic languages. Sye has an unusually complex morphological system and it offers a number of typological surprises for Oceanic linguists. It differs syntactically from many other Oceanic languages of Melanesia in that it does not have widespread verb serialization, though it, along with the other languages of southern Vanuatu, has developed what can be referred to as a system of "echo verbs." This volume describes Sye's phonology and morphosyntax in terms that are intended to be accessible to followers of a variety of linguistic theories, with considerable exemplification of points to allow linguists to reanalyze data according to their own theoretical interests.
From Ancient Cham To Modern Dialects
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Author : Graham Thurgood
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
From Ancient Cham To Modern Dialects written by Graham Thurgood and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Based on a reconstruction of ancient Chamic, with care taken to identify inherited Austronesian words as well as loan words and their sources, this text points out what the linguistic evidence tells us about the history of the region, and sketches the major consequences of historical contact on linguistic change in the history of Chamic.