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A Grammar of Unua / Elizabeth Pearce.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Linguistics [PL] ; 647Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (586 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614517658
  • 9781501500510
  • 9781614516590
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 490
LOC classification:
  • PL6329.5 .P43 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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