A grammar of Neverver
by Julie Barbour.
Bok Engelsk 2012 Julie. Barbour,· Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berlin : : De Gruyter Mouton, , c2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (502 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Tables and figures; Abbreviations; Maps; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Geographic and linguistic context; 1.1.1. Limap village; 1.1.2. Lingarakh village; 1.1.3. Multilingual interactions; 1.2. Historical origins; 1.2.2. Early work on Neverver; 1.3. An evaluation of language vitality; 1.3.2. Language statistics and transmission patterns; 1.3.3. Domains of use; 1.3.3.1. Religion; 1.3.3.2. Education; 1.3.3.3. Media; 1.3.4. Language support; 1.3.4.1. Local support; 1.3.4.2. Official support; 1.3.5. Literacy development and language documentation. - 1.4. Emerging vernacular literacy practices1.4.2. Literacy in religion; 1.4.3. Literacy in entertainment; 1.4.4. Literacy in education; 1.5. Documenting Neverver; 1.5.2. Working with the Neverver speech community; 1.5.3. Describing Neverver; 2. Phonology; 2.0. Introduction; 2.1. The consonant inventory; 2.2. Distinctive features for Neverver consonants; 2.3. Consonant contrasts; 2.3.1. Nasals /m, n, q/; 2.3.2. Plain plosives /p, t, k/; 2.3.2.1. The /p/ segment; 2.3.2.2. The /t/ and /k/ segments; 2.3.3. Prenasalized plosives /b, d, g/; 2.3.4. The prenasalized bilabial trill /B/. - 2.4.5. Realizations of the high back vowel /u/2.4.6. Diphthongs; 2.4.7. Multi-vowel sequences; 2.5. Phonotactic constraints; 2.5.1. One-to-one association; 2.5.2. Unassociated C slots; 2.5.3. Type A simultaneous association; 2.5.4. Type B simultaneous association; 2.5.5. Violations of the phonotactic constraint; 2.5.5.1. Initial /tC-/sequences; 2.5.5.2. The formation of compounds; 2.6. Phonological processes; 2.6.1. Neutralization; 2.6.2. Metathesis; 2.6.3. Epenthesis; 2.6.3.1. Epenthetic schwa; 2.6.3.2. Epenthetic plosives [d] and [g]; 2.6.3.3. Epenthetic plosive [b]. - 2.6.3.4. Established allomorphy for the irrealisnasal /m/2.6.3.5. Epenthetic [i]; 2.6.4. Apocope and syncope; 2.7. Stress; 2.7.1. Stress assignment in nouns; 2.7.2. Stress assignment in verbs; 2.8. Intonation patterns; 2.8.1. Terminal intonation; 2.8.2. Non-terminal intonation; 2.8.3. Polar interrogatives (9.3.2.); 2.9. Orthographic conventions; 3. Nominals; 3.0. Introduction; 3.1. Pronouns; 3.1.1. Independent personal pronouns; 3.1.2. Possessive determiners; 3.1.3. Possessive pronouns; 3.2. Noun classes; 3.3. Common nouns; 3.3.1. The function and distribution of the common noun prefix n(V)-. - 3.3.2. The form of the common noun prefix. - Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammaris of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.
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| ISBN | 1-283-85711-1. - 3-11-028961-X
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