Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication PDF Download

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Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: David D. Thomas
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ISBN: 9780870227882
Category : Chrau language
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: David R. Counts
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ISBN: 9780870221569
Category : Lusi language
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Author: [Anonymus AC00791797]
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Languages : en
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"Oceanic Linguistics" (ISSN: 0029-8115) is a semi-annual journal published by the University of Hawaii Press in Honolulu. The journal is devoted to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of southeast Asia. The University of Hawaii Press provides access to the tables of contents for the current and previous issues. Manuscript submission guidelines and subscription details are available.

Author: [Anonymus AC07795812]
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Languages : en
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Category : Linguistics - Publication
Languages : en
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Author: Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082483061X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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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.

Author: Terry Crowley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824828806
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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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."

Author: Jerold A. Edmondson
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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Author: Bill Palmer
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824863259
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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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.