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A Descriptive Grammar of Merei (Vanuatu)

Author : Ying Shing Anthony Chung
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Descriptive Grammar of Merei (Vanuatu) written by Ying Shing Anthony Chung and published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu. This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merei language is spoken by about four hundred people in the villages of Angoru, Navele, Tombet and Vusvogo in the interior of Espiritu Santo Island , Vanuatu . Merei, like most other languages from the interior of Espiritu Santo , has not previously been described. Merei is an SVO language with many typical Oceanic features such as a split between alienable and inalienable possession and frequent verb serialisation. Morphological structure is relatively simple, but bi-morphemic nouns are common. The language is rigidly head-marking and prepositional. This work is mainly based on language data collected by the author in Navele village in Espiritu Santo Island of Vanuatu, where he lived from May 1995 until March 1997.

A Descriptive Grammar of Merei (Vanuatu)

Author : Ying Shing Anthony Chung
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
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The Sonority Controversy

Author : Steve Parker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110261529
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Sonority Controversy written by Steve Parker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonority has a long and contentious history. It has often been invoked by linguists as an explanatory principle underlying various cross-linguistic phonotactic generalizations, especially within the domain of the syllable. However, many phonologists and phoneticians have expressed concerns about the adequacy of formal accounts based on sonority, including even doubts about the very existence of sonority itself. To date, the topic of sonority has never been the focus of an entire book. Consequently, this is the first complete volume that explores diverging viewpoints about phonological phenomena rooted in sonority taken from numerous languages. All of the contributors are well-known and respected linguists who publish their research in leading academic outlets. Furthermore, each chapter in this collection contains new, cutting-edge results based on the latest trends in the field. Hence, no other extant piece of literature matches this volume in terms of its breadth and coverage of issues, all converging on the common theme of sonority. Given the wide variety of subtopics in this collection, there is something to appeal to everyone — the list of contributions encompasses areas such as Optimality Theory, acquisition, computational modeling, acoustic phonetics, typology, syllable structure, speech perception, markedness, connectionism, psycholinguistics, and even MRI technology. What ties all of these issues together is a solid and consistent emphasis on sonority as a unified background phenomenon. Furthermore, a continuum of opinions about sonority is represented, ranging from complete acceptance and enthusiasm, on the one hand, to moderate skepticism on the other hand.

Anthropologica

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropologica written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of meetings of the institute.

Endangered Languages of Austronesia

Author : Margaret Florey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199544549
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Endangered Languages of Austronesia written by Margaret Florey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian language family. The contributions bring together Indigenous language activists and academic researchers with a long-standing commitment to language documentation.

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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*Leo Tuai

Author : D. Ross Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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A Journey Through Austronesian and Papuan Linguistic and Cultural Space

Author : Andrew Pawley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Languages of Vanuatu

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research Dies Australian National Univ
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Languages of Vanuatu written by John Lynch and published by Pacific Linguistics Research Dies Australian National Univ. This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Araki

Author : Alexandre François
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Araki written by Alexandre François and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oceanic Languages

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0700711287
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by John Lynch and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.

A Grammar of South Efate

Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082483061X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of South Efate written by Nicholas Thieberger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Non-Canonical Gender Systems

Author : Sebastian Fedden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192514784
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Non-Canonical Gender Systems written by Sebastian Fedden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although it has been widely explored from a typological perspective, studies are constantly identifying exciting and unexpected patterns in gender systems, many of which cannot be easily classified or straightforwardly analysed. Some of these patterns stretch or even threaten to cross the largely unexplored outer boundaries of the category. In the canonical approach, morphosyntactic features like gender are established in terms of a canonical ideal: the clearest instance of the phenomenon. The canonical ideal is a clustering of properties that serves as a baseline to measure the actual examples observed. In this volume, international experts use this approach to analyse a range of gender systems that diverge from the canonical ideal, and to determine to what extent each component property of these systems can be considered canonical. Chapters explore a wide range of typologically diverse languages from all over the world, from South America to Melanesia, and from Central Italy to Northern Australia. The book will be of interest to all linguists working in the field of typology, from graduate level upwards, as well as to morphologists and syntacticians of all theoretical stripes who have an interest in grammatical gender.

2009

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Publisher : K.G. Saur Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783598694530
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)

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Bislama

Author : Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bislama written by Darrell T. Tryon and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 1987 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deixis and Demonstratives in Oceanic Languages

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Deixis and Demonstratives in Oceanic Languages written by Gunter Senft and published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we communicate, we communicate in a certain context, and this context shapes our utterances. Natural languages are context-bound and deixis 'concerns the ways in which languages encode or grammaticalise features of the context of utterance or speech event, and thus also concerns ways in which the interpretation of utterances depends on the analysis of that context of utterance' (Stephen Levinson). The systems of deixis and demonstratives in the Oceanic languages represented in the contributions to this volume illustrate the fascinating complexity of spatial reference in these languages. Some of the studies presented here highlight social aspects of deictic reference illustrating de Leon's point that 'reference is a collaborative task' . It is hoped that this anthology will contribute to a better understanding of this area and provoke further studies in this extremely interesting, though still rather underdeveloped, research area.

An Erromangan (Sye) Grammar

Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824819354
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book An Erromangan (Sye) Grammar written by Terry Crowley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.