A Grammar of South Efate

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

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Book Synopsis A Grammar of South Efate by : Nicholas Thieberger

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.

Bislama Reference Grammar

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824828806
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (288 download)

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Book Synopsis Bislama Reference Grammar by : Terry Crowley

Download or read book Bislama Reference Grammar written by Terry Crowley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

A Dictionary of Nafsan, South Efate, Vanuatu

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824890515
Total Pages : 211 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Nafsan, South Efate, Vanuatu written by Nicholas Thieberger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a dictionary of Nafsan, the language spoken in Vanuatu in the south of Efate Island in the villages of Erakor, Pango, and Eratap. Nafsan is one of 130 distinct languages spoken in Vanuatu. Over several decades, linguist Nicholas Thieberger worked in close collaboration with the Erakor community to record this unique language and to refine its written presentation. The resulting publication offers insight into the diversity of meanings available to speakers of Nafsan, providing some 3,400 senses for Nafsan words and an English-Nafsan finderlist. In addition, the book gives an overview of the Nafsan sound system, provides a list of existing literature on the language dating back to early missionary translations, and includes maps of Efate locating nearly 200 place names. Readers will also find South Efate cultural knowledge embedded in the explanations of the Nafsan words and their usages. A welcome companion to Thieberger’s A Grammar of South Efate (2006), this book complements and significantly augments other multimedia resources made available online by the author.

Languages of Vanuatu

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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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Book Synopsis Languages of Vanuatu by : John Lynch

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Bislama

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Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Book Synopsis Bislama by : Darrell T. Tryon

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A Grammar of Mavea

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837061
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Mavea by : Valérie Guérin

Download or read book A Grammar of Mavea written by Valérie Guérin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beach-la-Mar to Bislama

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beach-la-Mar to Bislama written by Terry Crowley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on written records and other historical sources, he examines the language's labor history, and discusses the evolution of its grammatical construction.

Araki

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Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
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A New Bislama Dictionary

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Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820203624
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book A New Bislama Dictionary written by Terry Crowley and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new Bislama dictionary is a substantially updated version of the first edition, which reflects the ever-changing vocabulary of Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu."--Back cover.

An Annotated Bibliography of Vanuatu Languages

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
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Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of Vanuatu Languages written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tamambo

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Publisher : Pacific Linguistics School of Culture History and Language College of
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Book Synopsis Tamambo by : Dorothy Jauncey

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The Lolovoli Dialect of the North-East Ambae Language, Vanuatu

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
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A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu

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Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760464619
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu by : Catriona Malau

Download or read book A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu written by Catriona Malau and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a trilingual dictionary of Vurës, with meanings provided in both English and Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu. Vurës is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu. The dictionary is a companion volume to A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu (Malau 2016). There is no established tradition of writing in Vurës and most speakers are not literate in their own language. This dictionary is intended to have a dual purpose: to support the learning of literacy skills in the Vurës community, and as a reference work for linguists. There are four parts to the dictionary. The main part is the most comprehensive and provides the English and Bislama definitions of Vurës words, as well as example sentences for many of the entries, additional encyclopaedic information, scientific names for identified species, lexical relations, and etymological information for some entries. The dictionary contains approximately 3,500 headwords and has a strong emphasis on flora and fauna with close to a third of the entries belonging to these semantic domains. The dictionary has benefited from collaboration with a marine biologist and botanists, who have provided scientific identifications for named species. The main dictionary is followed by English–Vurës and Bislama–Vurës finderlists. The final part of the dictionary is a thesaurus, in which Vurës words are grouped according to semantic categories. The thesaurus has been included primarily so that it can be used to support teaching of literacy skills and cultural knowledge within the community.

Bislama

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Bislama by : Darrell Trevor Tryon

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The Lexicon in Focus

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Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book The Lexicon in Focus written by Leila Behrens and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When something is in focus, light falls on it from different angles. The lexicon can be viewed from different sides. Six views are represented in this volume: a cognitivist view of vagueness and lexicalization, a psycholinguistic view of lexical access in speech production, a patholinguistic view of lexical organization in schizophrenics, and three analyses from different points of view in computational linguistics, which deal with problems of the syntax-semantics interface, compositionality, and systematic polysemy. A metalinguistic initial contribution outlines the historical development of lexical semantics with its complementary, competing and converging strands. The introduction completes this integration of the different facets of research into a wider picture of lexicology.

A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501503588
Total Pages : 805 pages
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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu by : Catriona Malau

Download or read book A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu written by Catriona Malau and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Vurës language, spoken on the island of Vanua Lava, in the Banks group of islands, northern Vanuatu. Vurës is a previously undescribed language, with very few minor published works referring to the language.

Ura

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Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book Ura written by Terry Crowley and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: