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A grammar of Neverver / by Julie Barbour.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbour, Julie.
- Series:
- Mouton grammar library ; 60.
- Mouton grammar library, 0933-7636 ; 60
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oceanic languages--Grammar, Comparative.
- Oceanic languages.
- Malekula (Vanuatu)--Languages--Grammar, Comparative.
- Malekula (Vanuatu).
- Vanuatu--Languages--Grammar, Comparative.
- Vanuatu.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (502 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammaris of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Tables. Figures
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Phonology
- Chapter 3. Nominals
- Chapter 4. The noun phrase
- Chapter 5. Possession, relativization, and number
- Chapter 6. Verb classes
- Chapter 7. Expressing temporal, modal, and aspectual information
- Chapter 8. Reduplication
- Chapter 9. Clause structure
- Chapter 10. Complex nuclei
- Chapter 11. Complex cores
- Chapter 12. Complement-taking predicates
- Chapter 13. Clausal juncture and inter-propositional relations
- Appendices
- Appendix I. A. Bernard Deacon's Nesan Data (1926-1927)
- Appendix II. Neverver language vitality assessment
- Appendix III. The Neverver documentation corpus
- Appendix IV. Sample Texts
- Appendix V. Semantic relations
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283857116
- 1283857111
- 9783110289619
- 311028961X
- OCLC:
- 821177814
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