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A Grammar of Nese

A Grammar of Nese

Paperback

Series: Asia-Pacific Linguistics

Miscellaneous LanguagesLinguistics

ISBN10: 1760465550
ISBN13: 9781760465551
Publisher: Anu Press the Australian National University
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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