A grammar of Mavea : an oceanic language of Vanuatu /

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Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Mavea, w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guérin, Valérie M. P. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]
Colección:Oceanic linguistics special publication ; no. 39.
Temas:
Mavea language > Grammar.
Mavea language.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
Mavea language
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Phonology
  • 3. Word classes
  • 4. Derivational morphology
  • 5. The Mav̋ea counting system
  • 6. Noun phrases
  • 7. Possession
  • 8. Prepositions and prepositional phrases
  • 9. The verbal complex
  • 10. Issues in transitivity
  • 11. Serial verb constructions
  • 12. Simple sentences
  • 13. Negation and questions
  • 14. Coordination and subordination
  • References
  • Appendix: Texts in Mav̋ea
  • Abbreviations
  • Index.

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