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A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham : History, Contact, and Phonology / Graham Thurgood, Ela Thurgood, Li Fengxiang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Linguistics [PL] ; 643Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614517344
  • 9781614518778
  • 9781614516040
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 499/.22
LOC classification:
  • PL4491.95.H35 T48 2014
  • PL4491.95.H35
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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