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A Grammar and Dictionary of Rengao: An Austroasiatic Language of the Vietnam Central Highlands

A Grammar and Dictionary of Rengao: An Austroasiatic Language of the Vietnam Central Highlands

Gregerson, Marilyn
Sidwell, Paul
J. Gregerson, Kenneth

Hardcover

Dictionaries & EncyclopediasGrammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 9004752447
ISBN13: 9789004752443
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
The volume crystalizes the Gregerson's field work in the Kontum Province of Vietnam from 1968 to 1974, in collaboration with Rengao speakers Paul Hyum and Andre Ir. The result is a sketch grammar, a dictionary with over 6000 entries, and a text collection. Rengao is a North Bahnaric language within the Austroasiatic phylum: it features a typologically unusual tense-lax phonological contrast whose origins remain obscure, and an extensive expressive lexicon of onomatopoeic, ideophonic, and phonaesthemic forms integrel to the rich Rengao oral culture. The work also includes substbatial commentary on grammaticalization, borrowing and etymology.

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