Bislama Reference Grammar
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| Author | : Terry Crowley |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2004-05-31 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780824828806 |
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 | : Aleksandr Aĭkhenvalʹd |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199683220 |
This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars offer a basis for understanding linguistic diversity and can provide a unique perspective into the structure and social and cognitive underpinnings of different languages. Alexandra Aikhenvald describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data for use in this type of grammar, and discusses the typological parameters that can be used to explore relationships with other languages. She considers how a grammar can made to reflect and bring to life the society of its speakers through background explanation and the judicious choice of examples, as well as by showing how its language, history, and culture are intertwined. She ends with a full glossary of terms and guidance for those wanting to explore a particular linguistic phenomenon or language family. The Art of Grammar is the ideal resource for students and teachers of linguistics, language studies, and inductively-oriented linguistic, cultural, and social anthropology.
| Author | : Terry Crowley |
| Publisher | : [email protected] |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9789820203624 |
"A new Bislama dictionary is a substantially updated version of the first edition, which reflects the ever-changing vocabulary of Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu."--Back cover.
| Author | : John W. M. Verhaar |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780824816728 |
| Author | : Catriona Malau |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 806 |
| Release | : 2016-10-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501503642 |
This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Vurës language, spoken on the island of Vanua Lava, in the Banks group of islands, northern Vanuatu. Vurës is a previously undescribed language, with very few minor published works referring to the language.
| Author | : Dejun Zhuang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Bislama language |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Valérie Guérin |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2011-11-30 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0824836391 |
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 | : Jeff Siegel |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2008-02-28 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0199216665 |
This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies.
| Author | : Carsten Levisen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2024-04-01 |
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| ISBN | : 3111338002 |
| Author | : Bill Palmer |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2008-10-31 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0824863259 |
This work describes the grammar of Kokota, a highly endangered Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands, spoken by about nine hundred people on the island of Santa Isabel. After several long periods among the Kokota, Dr. Palmer has written an unusually detailed and comprehensive description of the language. Kokota has never before been described, so this work makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the Oceanic languages of island Melanesia. Kokota Grammar examines the phonology of the language and includes a lengthy section on stress assignment. It continues with chapters on nouns and noun phrases, minor participant types, possession, argument structure, the verb complex, clause structure, imperative and interrogative constructions, and subordination and coordination (including verb serialization). The typological interest of Kokota, along with its degree of endangerment and the paucity of information on Northwest Solomonic languages in general, combined with the level of detail given in the volume, make this a work of considerable interest to Austronesian linguists, typologists, syntacticians, phonologists, and all who are involved in describing and documenting endangered languages.
