A Grammar of Neverver /

A Grammar of Neverver / / Julie Barbour.

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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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Barbour, Julie,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 60
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Physical Description:1 online resource (476 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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