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A Grammar of Nese Asia Pacific Linguistics

by [Grelyn Takau, Lana]

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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.

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  • Anu Press the Australian Brand
  • Aug 15, 2023 Pub Date:
  • 9781760465551 ISBN-13:
  • 1760465550 ISBN-10:
  • 352.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 9.21 in * 0.96 in * 6.02 in Dimensions:
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