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Bislama Reference Grammar
Häftad, 2004
326 kr
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Bislama is the national language of Vanuatu, the world's most linguistically diverse nation with at least 80 actively spoken Oceanic languages used by about 200,000 people. Bislama began as a plantation pidgin based on English in the nineteenth century, but it has since developed into a unique …
Study of Saisiyat Morphology
Av Elizabeth Zeitoun, Tai-Hwa Chu m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
453 kr
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Saisiyat is a Formosan language spoken in the north-western part of Taiwan. It is divided into two groups, a northern and a southern group. The Northern group used to speak the Taai dialect (also known as the Northern dialect) and lives in the upper reaches of the Shangping river in Wufeng …
Tonality in Austronesian Languages
Av Jerold A. Edmondson, Kenneth J. Gregerson
Häftad, 1993
266 kr
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Erromangan (Sye) Grammar
Häftad, 1998
453 kr
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This volume presents a description of the language that is currently spoken on the island of Erromango, in southern Vanuatu in the southwestern part of the Pacific.
Otto Dempwolff's Grammar of the Jabem Language in New Guinea
Av Otto Dempwolff, Joel Bradshaw m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
208 kr
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Although Jabem is one of the best-documented languages in Melanesia (at least in Jabem and German), the only materials available in English have been Streicher's (1982) Jabem-English Dictionary, a brief grammar sketch in Tryon's (1995) Comparative Austronesian Dictionary, and sporadic articles on …
William J. Gedney's Comparative Tai Source Book
Häftad, 2007
352 kr
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This volume provides accurate and reliable data from 1,159 common cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. Originally collected by noted Tai linguist the late William J. Gedney, the data are organized into the three branches of the Tai language family, the Southwestern, the …
Kokota Grammar
Av Bill Palmer
Häftad, 2008
395 kr
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This work describes the grammar of Kokota, a highly endangered Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands, spoken by about nine hundred people on the island of Santa Isabel. After several long periods among the Kokota, Dr. Palmer has written an unusually detailed and comprehensive description of the …
Dictionary of Mah Meri
Häftad, 2010
453 kr
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Mah Meri is an Aslian (Austroasiatic: Mon-Khmer) language spoken in scattered settlements along a section of the southwest coast of Selangor in Peninsular Malaysia. The Mah Meri are the only Aslian speakers who live in a coastal environment. Their language, which may have about 2,000 speakers, has …
William J. Gedney's Concise Saek-English, English-Saek Lexicon
Av William J. Gedney, Thomas John Hudak
Häftad, 2011
395 kr
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Saek, a Northern Tai language spoken in villages in Nakhon Phanom province on the border of Northeast Thailand and Laos, is noted for its unique phonological features within the Tai language family. This lexicon, originally compiled by the late Tai linguist William J. Gedney in the 1970s and …
Grammar of Mavea
An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu
Häftad, 2011
453 kr
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Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Mavea, …
