A grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham : : history, contact, and phonology / / Graham Thurgood, Ela Thurgood, Li Fengxiang.
"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). T...
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| Superior document: | Pacific linguistics, volume 643 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston ;, Berlin : : De Gruyter/Mouton,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pacific linguistics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (428 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- The people and the setting
- Legends and history
- The linguistic setting
- The Hainan Cham sound system
- Acoustic analyses
- Word classes
- Clause types
- Discourse pragmatics
- Contact summary
- Appendix A: English-Hainan Cham glossary
- Appendix B: the Stubel wordlist
- Appendix C: Sanya Mandarin.