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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thurgood, Graham
Otros Autores: Thurgood, Ela, Li, Fengxiang, Dr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.
Colección:Pacific Linguistics PL.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The people and the setting
  • Legends and history
  • The linguistic setting
  • The Hainan Cham sound system
  • Acoustic analyses
  • Word classes
  • Clause types
  • Discourse pragmatics
  • Contact summary
  • Appendix A: English-Hainan Cham glossary
  • Appendix B: the Stübel wordlist
  • Appendix C: Sanya Mandarin.