A Grammar of Nese
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A Grammar of Nese

  1. 350 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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A Grammar of Nese

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About This Book

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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Publisher
ANU Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781760465568
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. List of illustrations
  2. Author biography
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1. Introduction
  6. 2. Phonology
  7. 3. Word classes
  8. 4. The noun phrase
  9. 5. The verb complex
  10. 6. Simple sentences
  11. 7. Complex sentences
  12. References