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1 online resource (615 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits. |
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polychrome |
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Pacific Linguistics ; 647
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Pacific linguistics ; 647.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
2.6.1. The Unua of older and younger speakers2.6.2. Unua and Pangkumu; 2.6.2.1. Consonant clusters; 2.6.2.2. Consonant phonemes; 2.6.2.3. Vowels; Chapter 3 -- Nouns and pronouns; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Nouns; 3.2.1. Common nouns; 3.2.1.1 Noun accretions; 3.2.1.1.1. *na accretion; 3.2.1.1.2. *a accretion; 3.2.1.1.3. Absence of accretion; 3.2.1.1.4. Roots in compounds; 3.2.1.2. Noun/verb root pairings; 3.2.1.3. Preposition incorporation; 3.2.2. Proper nouns; 3.3. Personal pronouns; 3.4. Demonstratives; 3.4.1. Introduction; 3.4.2. Modifying deictic/anaphoric demonstratives; 3.4.2.1. Overview. |
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2.3.1.2. Bilabial plosives: /p mb/2.3.1.3. The bilabial fricative: /Â/; 2.3.1.4. Velarized bilabials (older speakers) : /pw mbw Âw/; 2.3.2. Coronal consonants: /t nd s t ∫ ɾ r l/; 2.3.2.1. Plosives: /t nd/; 2.3.2.2. Voiceless coronals: /t s tS/; 2.3.2.3. Rhotics: /Q r/; 2.3.2.4. The lateral consonant: /l/; 2.3.3. Velar obstruents: /kŋ g ɣ/; 2.3.4. Nasal consonants: /m n ŋ/; 2.3.5. Vowels: /i e a o u (ø ө ʉ)/; 2.3.5.1. Vowels: All speakers: /i e a o u/; 2.3.5.2. Vowels: Older speakers: /ø Õ õ/; 2.4. Stress placement; 2.5. Syllable structure and phonotactics; 2.6. Variation and change. |
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3.4.2.2. Previous mention demonstratives3.4.2.3. Proximate and distant demonstratives; 3.4.2.4. Summary; 3.4.3. Demonstrative pronouns; 3.4.3.1. Introduction; 3.4.3.2. 'Thing' demonstratives; 3.4.3.2.1. danga; 3.4.3.2.2. dongo; 3.4.3.2.3. dag; 3.4.3.2.4. denge; 3.4.3.2.5. Summary; 3.4.3.3. 'Person' demonstratives; 3.4.3.4. 'One' demonstratives; 3.4.3.5. Summary; 3.5. Joint and disjoint reference encoding; 3.5.1. Referential identity; 3.5.2. Disjoint reference; 3.6. Interrogatives; 3.7. Concluding remarks; Chapter 4 -- Noun phrases; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Possession; 4.2.1. Introduction. |
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4.2.2. Direct Possession4.2.3. Indirect Possession; 4.2.3.1. Introduction; 4.2.3.2. Indirect Possession se; 4.2.3.3. Indirect Possession xise; 4.2.4. Possessor iterativity, preposing and constituency; 4.3. Further forms of nominal modification; 4.3.1. Introduction; 4.3.2. Noun compounding; 4.3.3. Noun modification with nen; 4.4. Constructions with nga; 4.4.1. Introduction; 4.4.2. Relative clauses; 4.4.3. Further constructions with nga; 4.5. Adjectival modification; 4.5.1. Adjectives; 4.5.2. Adjectival extensions; 4.6. Numerals; 4.6.1. Cardinal numerals; 4.6.2. Ordinal number. |
| Summary |
This book describes the Unua language of Malakula, Vanuatu. The island of Malakula is known to have, or to have had, a total of about 40 distinct languages of which fewer than half have been described. The 700 or so speakers of Unua are also fluent speakers of Bislama and the domains of use for Unua are becoming more restricted. Unua is thus endangered and the documentation of the language in its present form is very timely. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Unua language -- Grammar.
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Unua language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Endangered languages -- Vanuatu -- Malekula.
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Endangered languages. |
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Vanuatu -- Malekula. |
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Malekula (Vanuatu) -- Languages.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pearce, Elizabeth. Grammar of Unua. Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015] xxx, 585 pages ; 24 cm. Pacific Linguistics ; 647 9781614517658 |
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1614516596 (e-book) |
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9781501500510 |
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1501500511 |
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9781614516590 (electronic book) |
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9781614517658 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781614516590 |
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