Languages Of Vanuatu

Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824830618

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A Grammar of South Efate by Nicholas Thieberger Pdf

This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of PortVila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world’s smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software (Audiamus) developed in the course of the research. An included DVD provides a dictionary and finderlist, a set of interlinearized example texts and elicited sentences, and playable media versions of most example sentences and of the example texts.

Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824828801

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Bislama Reference Grammar by Terry Crowley Pdf

Bislama is the national language of Vanuatu, the world's most linguistically diverse nation with at least 80 actively spoken Oceanic languages used by about 200,000 people. Bislama began as a plantation pidgin based on English in the nineteenth century, but it has since developed into a unique language with a grammar and vocabulary very different from English. It is one of very few national languages for which there is no readily available reference grammar. This book aims to fill this gap by providing an extensive account of the grammar of Bislama as it is used by ordinary Ni-Vanuatu. It does not, therefore, aim to describe any kind of artificial written norm but sets out to capture a range of different kinds of ways that Ni-Vanuatu will say things in various contexts, both written and spoken, formal and informal. The thrust of this volume is to show that Bislama has a grammar—an unfamiliar concept for those educated in Vanuatu. It also shows that Bislama is a language of considerable complexity, which will come as a surprise to many of its users, who have been taught to view their language as somehow "simple" and even "deficient."

Author : John Lynch,Terry Crowley
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research Dies Australian National Univ
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : OSU:32435068221951

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Languages of Vanuatu by John Lynch,Terry Crowley Pdf

Author : Valérie Guérin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824837068

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A Grammar of Mavea by Valérie Guérin Pdf

Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Mavea, with an emphasis on the latter. Of particular interest are examples of individual speaker variation presented throughout the grammar; the presence of three linguo-labials (still used today by a single speaker) that were unexpectedly found before the rounded vowel /o/; and a chapter on numerals and the counting system, which have long been replaced by Bislama’s but are remembered by a handful of speakers. Most of the grammatical descriptions derive from a corpus of texts of various genres (conversations, traditional stories, personal histories, etc.) gathered during the author’s fieldwork, conducted for eleven months between 2005 and 2007.

Author : Nicholas Thieberger,Members of the Erakor Community
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824890513

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A Dictionary of Nafsan, South Efate, Vanuatu by Nicholas Thieberger,Members of the Erakor Community Pdf

This is a dictionary of Nafsan, the language spoken in Vanuatu in the south of Efate Island in the villages of Erakor, Pango, and Eratap. Nafsan is one of 130 distinct languages spoken in Vanuatu. Over several decades, linguist Nicholas Thieberger worked in close collaboration with the Erakor community to record this unique language and to refine its written presentation. The resulting publication offers insight into the diversity of meanings available to speakers of Nafsan, providing some 3,400 senses for Nafsan words and an English-Nafsan finderlist. In addition, the book gives an overview of the Nafsan sound system, provides a list of existing literature on the language dating back to early missionary translations, and includes maps of Efate locating nearly 200 place names. Readers will also find South Efate cultural knowledge embedded in the explanations of the Nafsan words and their usages. A welcome companion to Thieberger’s A Grammar of South Efate (2006), this book complements and significantly augments other multimedia resources made available online by the author.

Author : Darrell Trevor Tryon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Bislama language
ISBN : OCLC:958939804

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Bislama by Darrell Trevor Tryon Pdf

Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bislama language
ISBN : UCSC:32106009669448

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Beach-la-Mar to Bislama by Terry Crowley Pdf

Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on written records and other historical sources, he examines the language's labor history, and discusses the evolution of its grammatical construction.

Author : Alexandre François
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Araki language
ISBN : UOM:39015055443561

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Araki by Alexandre François Pdf

Author : Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040842663

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Bislama by Darrell T. Tryon Pdf

Author : Dorothy Jauncey
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics School of Culture History and Language College of
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Malo language (Vanuatu)
ISBN : OSU:32435083803270

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Tamambo by Dorothy Jauncey Pdf

Author : Catriona Hyslop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aoba (Vanuatu)
ISBN : UOM:39015053505288

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The Lolovoli Dialect of the North-East Ambae Language, Vanuatu by Catriona Hyslop Pdf

Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015048548765

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Ura by Terry Crowley Pdf

Author : Catriona Malau
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781760464615

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A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu by Catriona Malau Pdf

This is a trilingual dictionary of Vurës, with meanings provided in both English and Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu. Vurës is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu. The dictionary is a companion volume to A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu (Malau 2016). There is no established tradition of writing in Vurës and most speakers are not literate in their own language. This dictionary is intended to have a dual purpose: to support the learning of literacy skills in the Vurës community, and as a reference work for linguists. There are four parts to the dictionary. The main part is the most comprehensive and provides the English and Bislama definitions of Vurës words, as well as example sentences for many of the entries, additional encyclopaedic information, scientific names for identified species, lexical relations, and etymological information for some entries. The dictionary contains approximately 3,500 headwords and has a strong emphasis on flora and fauna with close to a third of the entries belonging to these semantic domains. The dictionary has benefited from collaboration with a marine biologist and botanists, who have provided scientific identifications for named species. The main dictionary is followed by English–Vurës and Bislama–Vurës finderlists. The final part of the dictionary is a thesaurus, in which Vurës words are grouped according to semantic categories. The thesaurus has been included primarily so that it can be used to support teaching of literacy skills and cultural knowledge within the community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : UOM:39015034918618

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An Annotated Bibliography of Vanuatu Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cynthia Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Apma language
ISBN : UCSD:31822036570026

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A Grammar of Abma by Cynthia Schneider Pdf