A grammar of Unua
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 religi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston ; Berlin ; Munich
De Gruyter Mouton
2015, ©2015
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| Series: | Pacific Linguistics
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | XXX, 585 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61451-659-0 978-1-5015-0051-0 |