A grammar of Unua / / by Elizabeth Pearce
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| Autore: |
Pearce Elizabeth <1942->
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| Titolo: |
A grammar of Unua / / by Elizabeth Pearce
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| Pubblicazione: | Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (616 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 490 |
| Soggetto topico: | Unua language - Grammar |
| Endangered languages - Vanuatu - Malekula | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Malekula (Vanuatu) Languages |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Endangered Languages |
| Oceanic Languages | |
| Vanuatu, Malakula | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Data coding -- Maps -- Photos: Unua people -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- Chapter 3. Nouns and pronouns -- Chapter 4. Noun phrases -- Chapter 5. Verbs and verb modification -- Chapter 6. Sentences without verbs -- Chapter 7. Sentence structure -- Chapter 8. Subordinate clauses -- Chapter 9. Coordination -- Chapter 10. Negation -- Chapter 11. Questions -- Chapter 12. Topic and Focus -- Chapter 13. Unua and Bislama -- Appendix I. Vowels in verb paradigms -- Appendix II. Jirvaren: Two stories -- References |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and religious settings. The description is based on material collected in the field from speakers of different age-groups in the five Unua villages. The data corpus includes a substantial body of material: contemporary translations of the New Testament gospels; audio-recorded transcribed and glossed texts; and elicited material collected with a range of speakers. The analysis includes comparisons with other Malakula languages and is both of typological and historical-comparative interest. The data documentation is substantial and detailed. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A grammar of Unua |
| ISBN: | 1-5015-0051-1 |
| 1-61451-659-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797024403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Pacific linguistics ; ; 647.