TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thurgood,Graham
AU  - Fengxiang,Li
AU  - Thurgood,Ela
TI  - A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham: History, Contact, and Phonology 
T2  - Pacific Linguistics [PL] ,
SN  - 9781614517344
AV  - PL4491.95.H35 T48 2014
U1  - 499/.22 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Cham language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - China
KW  - Hainan Sheng
KW  - History
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Phonology
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Chamic
KW  - Hainan Cham
KW  - Language Contact
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Table of contents --; List of maps --; Conventions --; List of abbreviations --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The people and the setting --; 3. Legends and History --; 4. The linguistic setting --; 5. The Hainan Cham sound system --; 6. Acoustic analyses --; 7. Word classes --; 8. Clause types --; 9. Discourse Pragmatics --; 10. Contact summary --; Texts --; Appendix A: Hainan Cham – English Glossary / English – Hainan Cham Glossary --; Appendix B: The Stübel wordlist --; Appendix C: Sanya Mandarin --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614516040
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614516040
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614516040/original
ER  -