A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu [With CDROM] (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780824830618)

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.

Author: Nicholas Thieberger
ISBN-10: 082483061X
ISBN-13: 9780824830618
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2006
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.14w x 1.19d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 273