A Grammar of Unua |
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| Author:
| Pearce, Elizabeth |
| Series title: | Pacific Linguistics [PL] Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61451-765-8 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
| Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Imprint: | De Gruyter Mouton |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $162.99USD $179.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.