A Grammar of Unua

Elizabeth Pearce

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

A Grammar of Unua

Elizabeth Pearce

Volume 647 in the series Pacific Linguistics [PL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614516590

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About this book

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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Elizabeth Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	v
Contents Accessible Download PDF	ix
Data coding Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	xvii
Maps Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	xxiv
Photos: Unua people Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	xxvi
Chapter 1. Introduction Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Phonology Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	8
Chapter 3. Nouns and pronouns Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	48
Chapter 4. Noun phrases Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	120
Chapter 5. Verbs and verb modification Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	209
Chapter 6. Sentences without verbs Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	372
Chapter 7. Sentence structure Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	388
Chapter 8. Subordinate clauses Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	445
Chapter 9. Coordination Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	495
Chapter 10. Negation Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	514
Chapter 11. Questions Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	528
Chapter 12. Topic and Focus Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	544
Chapter 13. Unua and Bislama Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	551
Appendix I. Vowels in verb paradigms Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	559
Appendix II. Jirvaren: Two stories Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	562
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Austronesian Linguists, Specialists in Oceanic Linguistics, General Linguists.
Pages
- Front matter: 30
- Main content: 586
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
Keywords: Oceanic Languages; Vanuatu; Malakula; Endangered Languages

eBook

Published: March 10, 2015
ISBN: 9781614516590

Hardcover

Published: February 16, 2015
ISBN: 9781614517658