A grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham : history, contact, and phonology / Graham Thurgood, Ela Thurgood, Li Fengxiang.

By: Thurgood, Graham [author.]Contributor(s): Thurgood, Ela [author.] | Li, Fengxiang [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific linguistics ; 643.Publisher: Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter/Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (428 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781614516040Subject(s): Cham language -- Dialects -- China -- Hainan Sheng -- History | Cham language -- Grammar | Cham language -- PhonologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham : history, contact, and phonology.DDC classification: 499/.22 LOC classification: PL4491.95.H35 | T48 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The people and the setting -- Legends and history -- The linguistic setting -- The Hainan Cham sound system -- Acoustic analyses -- Word classes -- Clause types -- Discourse pragmatics -- Contact summary -- Appendix A: English-Hainan Cham glossary -- Appendix B: the Stubel wordlist -- Appendix C: Sanya Mandarin.
Summary: "This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index.

The people and the setting -- Legends and history -- The linguistic setting -- The Hainan Cham sound system -- Acoustic analyses -- Word classes -- Clause types -- Discourse pragmatics -- Contact summary -- Appendix A: English-Hainan Cham glossary -- Appendix B: the Stubel wordlist -- Appendix C: Sanya Mandarin.

"This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts"-- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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