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Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : UoM Custom Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9781921775512
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book A South Efate Dictionary written by Nicholas Thieberger and published by UoM Custom Book Centre. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824890515
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
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.
Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082483061X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
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.
Author : Jeff Siegel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027252524
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Language Description, History and Development written by Jeff Siegel and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive classifiers, diphthongs, accent patterns, modals in Australian English and directional terms in atoll-based languages. Part II, Historical Linguistics and Linguistic History, ranges from the reconstruction of Australian languages, to reflexes of Proto-Oceanic, to the lexicon of early Melanesian Pidgin. Part III, Language Development and Linguistic Applications, comprises studies of lexicography, language in education, and language endangerment and language revival, spanning the Pacific from South Australia and New Zealand to Melanesia and on to Colombia. The volume will whet the appetite of anyone interested in the latest linguistic research in this richly multilingual part of the globe.
Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191632821
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork written by Nicholas Thieberger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers explain the methods and approaches needed to understand a language in its full cultural context and to document it accessibly and enduringly. They consider the application of new technological approaches to recording and documentation, but never lose sight of the crucial relationship between subject and researcher. The book is timely: an increased awareness of dying languages and vanishing dialects has stimulated the impetus for recording them as well as the funds required to do so. The handbook is an indispensible source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural work.
Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824828806
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (288 download)
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."
Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820203624
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
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.
Author : Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1904 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and analyses the social customs and organization of the Western Torres Strait Islanders; myths and folk-tales, nature myths; genealogies of Mabuiag; social and place related aspects of totemism, Yam, Saibai; magic connected with turtle fishing, initiation and funeral ceremonies at Pulu; initiation at Kiwai, Cape York and Muralug; land tenure and inheritance at Mabuiag; trade between Moa, Yam, Saibai, Pacific Islands; religion in Pacific Islands, Thursday Island, Torres Strait; cult of Kwoiam; warfare between Mabuiag men and the men of Moa; marriage, courtship, in Muralug.
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9781001423364
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Volume Iii Linguistics written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Reports written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Herbert Ray
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages written by Sidney Herbert Ray and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1926 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110884011
Total Pages : 3564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Comparative Austronesian Dictionary written by Darrell T. Tryon and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 3564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : Department of Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Paamese written by Terry Crowley and published by Department of Linguistics. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824819354
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (193 download)
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.
Author : D. Ross Clark
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Mele Language (atara Imere), Vanuatu written by D. Ross Clark and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 1998 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Naval History Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
