| A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu [With CDROM] Contributor(s): Thieberger, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 082483061X ISBN-13: 9780824830618 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press OUR PRICE: $38.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of Port Vila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world's smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Oceanic & Australian Languages - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 499.5 |
| LCCN: 2006014324 |
| Series: Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.14" W x 9.04" (1.41 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of PortVila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world's smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software (Audiamus) developed in the course of the research. An included DVD provides a dictionary and finderlist, a set of interlinearized example texts and elicited sentences, and playable media versions of most example sentences and of the example texts. |