TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pearce,Elizabeth
TI  - A Grammar of Unua
T2  - Pacific Linguistics [PL] ,
SN  - 9781614517658
AV  - PL6329.5 .P43 2015
U1  - 490 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Endangered languages
KW  - Malekula (Vanuatu)
KW  - Vanuatu
KW  - Malekula
KW  - Languages
KW  - Unua language
KW  - Grammar
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Endangered Languages
KW  - Oceanic Languages
KW  - Vanuatu, Malakula
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614516590
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614516590
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614516590/original
ER  -