A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham : : History, Contact, and Phonology /

A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham : : History, Contact, and Phonology / / Graham Thurgood, Ela Thurgood, Li Fengxiang.

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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). The app...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Thurgood, Graham,
Fengxiang, Li,
Thurgood, Ela,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 643
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Physical Description:1 online resource (404 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • List of maps
  • Conventions
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The people and the setting
  • 3. Legends and History
  • 4. The linguistic setting
  • 5. The Hainan Cham sound system
  • 6. Acoustic analyses
  • 7. Word classes
  • 8. Clause types
  • 9. Discourse Pragmatics
  • 10. Contact summary
  • Texts
  • Appendix A: Hainan Cham – English Glossary / English – Hainan Cham Glossary
  • Appendix B: The Stübel wordlist
  • Appendix C: Sanya Mandarin
  • References
  • Index

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