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A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 629

A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages

This book, first published in 1928, is an exhaustive study of the languages of Melanesia and the attendant islands.

A Grammar of South Efate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

A Grammar of South Efate

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.

Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1366
Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1336
A Dictionary of the Mele Language (atara Imere), Vanuatu
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

A Dictionary of the Mele Language (atara Imere), Vanuatu

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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 526

The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

A Grammar of South Efate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

A Grammar of South Efate

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.

The imperial and Asiatic quarterly review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516

The imperial and Asiatic quarterly review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal Languages

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The anthology focuses mainly on endangered Oceanic languages, with articles on Vanuatu by Darrell Tryon and the Marquesas by Gabriele Cablitz, on situations of loss and gain by Ingjerd Hom︠ and on the Kilivila language of the Trobriands by the editor. Nick Thieberger, Peter Wittenburg and Paul Trilsbeek, and David Blundell and colleagues write about aspects of linguistic archiving. Under the rubric of revitalization, Margaret Florey and Michael Ewing write about Maluku, Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh about Australian Aboriginal languages in southeastern Australia, whilst three articles, by Sophie Nock, Diane Johnson and Winifred Crombie concern the revitalization of Maori.

The Journal of the Polynesian Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

The Journal of the Polynesian Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.