| A Grammar of Unua Contributor(s): Pearce, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1614517657 ISBN-13: 9781614517658 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $179.54 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Syntax - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian |
| Dewey: 499.5 |
| LCCN: 2015006326 |
| Series: Pacific Linguistics [Pl] |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (2.20 lbs) 616 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pearce, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. |