TY - BOOK AU - Thurgood,Graham AU - Thurgood,Ela AU - Li,Fengxiang TI - A grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham: history, contact, and phonology T2 - Pacific linguistics, AV - PL4491.95.H35 T48 2014 U1 - 499/.22 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Boston, Berlin PB - De Gruyter/Mouton KW - Cham language KW - Dialects KW - China KW - Hainan Sheng KW - History KW - Grammar KW - Phonology KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1575406 ER -