Descripción
Nese is a dying Oceanic language spoken on the island of Malekula, in northern Vanuatu. This book, based on first-hand fieldwork data, and without adhering to any particular syntactic framework, presents a synchronic grammatical description of Nese's phonology and syntax. Despite being on the verge of extinction, with fewer than 20 living speakers, the language displays intriguing properties-including but not exclusive to the cross-linguistically rare apicolabial phonemes, interesting vowel-raising patterns in some word classes, and a discontinuous negation relationship that is obligatorily expressed with the irrealis mood marker. This book will probably be the last work published on Nese.
Author: Lana Grelyn Takau
Publisher: Anu Press
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.02w x 0.96d
ISBN13: 9781760465551
ISBN10: 1760465550
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Historical & Comparative
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