A Grammar of Mavea An Oceanic Langugage of Vanuatu 1st Edition by Valérie Guérin ISBN 9780824836399 0824836399
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ISBN 10: 0824836399
ISBN 13: 9780824836399
Author: Valérie Guérin
Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Mavea, with an emphasis on the latter. Of particular interest are examples of individual speaker variation presented throughout the grammar; the presence of three linguo-labials (still used today by a single speaker) that were unexpectedly found before the rounded vowel /o/; and a chapter on numerals and the counting system, which have long been replaced by Bislama’s but are remembered by a handful of speakers.
Most of the grammatical descriptions derive from a corpus of texts of various genres (conversations, traditional stories, personal histories, etc.) gathered during the author’s fieldwork, conducted for eleven months between 2005 and 2007.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Phonology
Chapter 3: Word Classes
Chapter 4: Derivational Morphology
Chapter 5: The Mavea Counting System
Chapter 6: Noun Phrases
Chapter 7: Possession
Chapter 8: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Chapter 9: The Verbal Complex
Chapter 10: Issues in Transitivity
Chapter 11: Serial Verb Constructions
Chapter 12: Simple Sentences
Chapter 13: Negation and Questions
Chapter 14: Coordination and Subordination
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