A Grammar of Unua

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-61451-765-8
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 647, 586 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1057 g

Reihe: Pacific Linguistics [PL]

The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and religious settings.

The description is based on material collected in the field from speakers of different age-groups in the five Unua villages. The data corpus includes a substantial body of material: contemporary translations of the New Testament gospels; audio-recorded transcribed and glossed texts; and elicited material collected with a range of speakers. The analysis includes comparisons with other Malakula languages and is both of typological and historical-comparative interest. The data documentation is substantial and detailed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearce, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.