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- ISBN 9781614517658
- Weight: 998g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2015
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and religious settings.
The description is based on material collected in the field from speakers of different age-groups in the five Unua villages. The data corpus includes a substantial body of material: contemporary translations of the New Testament gospels; audio-recorded transcribed and glossed texts; and elicited material collected with a range of speakers. The analysis includes comparisons with other Malakula languages and is both of typological and historical-comparative interest. The data documentation is substantial and detailed.
Elizabeth Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
