A Grammar of Neverver / / Julie Barbour.
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 po...
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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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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (476 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- 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 |
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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 grammar is of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110289619 9783110238570 9783110238457 9783110636970 9783110742961 9783110288995 9783110288902 9783110288896 |
ISSN: | 0933-7636 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110289619 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Julie Barbour. |