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Author : H. Zahn,J. F. Streicher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015066316913
Author : Hans Fischer,Bettina Beer
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781760464790
This ethnographic dictionary is the result of Hans Fischer’s long-term fieldwork among the Wampar, who occupy the middle Markham Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Their language, Dzob Wampar, belongs to the Markham family of the Austronesian languages. Today most Wampar speak not only Wampar but also PNG’s lingua franca, Tok Pisin. Six decades of Wampar research has documented the extent and speed of change in the region. Today, mining, migration and the commodification of land are accelerating the pace of change in Wampar communities, resulting in great individual differences in knowledge of the vernacular. This dictionary covers largely forgotten Wampar expressions as well as loanwords from German and Jabêm that have become part of everyday language. Most entries contain example sentences from original Wampar texts. The dictionary is complemented by an overview of ethnographic research among Wampar, a sketch of Wampar grammar, a bibliography and an English-to-Wampar finder list.
Author : Otto Dempwolff
Publisher : Latitude 20
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015060545681
Otto Dempwolff is far better known for his historical and comparative work than for his descriptive and theoretical contributions to linguistics. However, the work to which he devoted his last efforts before he died in 1938 was a grammatical description of Jabêm, an Austronesian language adopted and spread as a church and school lingua franca by the German Lutheran mission in what is now Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Although Jabêm is one of the best-documented languages in Melanesia (at least in Jabêm and German), the only materials available in English have been Streicher’s (1982) Jabêm-English Dictionary, a brief grammar sketch in Tryon’s (1995) Comparative Austronesian Dictionary, and sporadic articles on Jabêm tonogenesis and verb serialization. This translation of Otto Dempwolff’s grammar now adds a comprehensive overview and data-rich synthesis of Jabêm grammar. Because he wrote his grammar at the request of the Lutheran missionaries, Dempwolff took care to make his description understandable to an audience of educated lay people as well as to linguists by explaining his terminology and reasoning as he introduced new topics. This task was made all the more necessary because he considered Jabêm to be the most difficult Melanesian language he had ever encountered, one for which European grammatical models proved entirely inadequate. The result is a highly original, yet surprisingly accessible grammatical description by one of the founders of Austronesian comparative linguistics.
Author : Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 3564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110884012
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author : Jerold A. Edmondson,Kenneth J. Gregerson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824815300
Chapters: Tonogenesis in the North Huon Gulf Chain Ross, Malcolm D Uses of phonation type in Javanese Poedjosoedarmo, Gloria R Voicing and vowel height in Madurese: a preliminary report Cohn, Abigail C Phan Rang Cham and Utsat: Tonogenetic themes and variants Thurgood, Graham Tone in Utsat Maddieson, Ian and Keng-Fong Pang Overview of Austronesian and Philippine accent patterns Zorc, R. David Western Cham as a register language Edmondson, Jerold A. and Kenneth J. Gregerson Tonogenesis in New Caledonia Rivierre, Jean-Claude Proto-Austronesian stress Wolff, John U Proto-Micronesian prosody Rehg, Kenneth L Austronesian final consonants and the origin of Chinese tones Sagart, Laurent
Author : Otto Dempwolff
Publisher : Latitude 20
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X004810225
Otto Dempwolff is far better known for his historical and comparative work than for his descriptive and theoretical contributions to linguistics. However, the work to which he devoted his last efforts before he died in 1938 was a grammatical description of Jabêm, an Austronesian language adopted and spread as a church and school lingua franca by the German Lutheran mission in what is now Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Although Jabêm is one of the best-documented languages in Melanesia (at least in Jabêm and German), the only materials available in English have been Streicher’s (1982) Jabêm-English Dictionary, a brief grammar sketch in Tryon’s (1995) Comparative Austronesian Dictionary, and sporadic articles on Jabêm tonogenesis and verb serialization. This translation of Otto Dempwolff’s grammar now adds a comprehensive overview and data-rich synthesis of Jabêm grammar. Because he wrote his grammar at the request of the Lutheran missionaries, Dempwolff took care to make his description understandable to an audience of educated lay people as well as to linguists by explaining his terminology and reasoning as he introduced new topics. This task was made all the more necessary because he considered Jabêm to be the most difficult Melanesian language he had ever encountered, one for which European grammatical models proved entirely inadequate. The result is a highly original, yet surprisingly accessible grammatical description by one of the founders of Austronesian comparative linguistics.
Author : Malcolm Ross,Andrew Pawley,Meredith Osmond
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781921313196
This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which presents and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular semantic field within that domain. Volume 2 examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their geophysical environment. An introductory chapter discusses linguistic and archaeological evidence that locates the Proto Oceanic language community in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 2nd millennium BC. The next three chapters investigate terms used to denote inland, coastal, reef and open sea environments, and meteorological phenomena. A further chapter examines the lexicon for features of the heavens and navigational techniques associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic speakers talked about their environment is also described in three further chapters which treat property terms for describing inanimate objects, locational and directional terms, and terms related to the expression of time.
Author : John Lynch,Malcolm Ross,Terry Crowley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780700711284
The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.
Author : Stephen A. Wurm,Peter Mühlhäusler,Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110819724
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author : Ron Brunton
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521373751
In this book, Ron Brunton attempts to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders.
Author : Cliff Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X001223031
Author : M. A. Jaspan,W. Aichele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Rejang language
ISBN : UCAL:B4230345
Author : Joel Bradshaw,Kenneth L. Rehg
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Austronesian languages
ISBN : UVA:X004641951
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UOM:39015046780444
Author : H. Zahn
Publisher : Institue of Papua New Guinea Studies
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015041707335