A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham History, Contact, and Phonology
This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The app...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston ; Berlin
De Gruyter Mouton
2014, ©2014
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| Series: | Pacific Linguistics
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts. |
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| Physical Description: | XXIV, 404 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61451-604-0 978-1-61451-877-8 |