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A Grammar of Nese

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Nese is a dying Oceanic language spoken on the island of Malekula, in northern Vanuatu. This book, based on first-hand fieldwork data, and without adhering to any particular syntactic framework, presents a synchronic grammatical description of Nese's phonology and syntax. Despite being on the verge of extinction, with fewer than 20 living speakers, the language displays intriguing properties-including but not exclusive to the cross-linguistically rare apicolabial phonemes, interesting vowel-raising patterns in some word classes, and a discontinuous negation relationship that is obligatorily expressed with the irrealis mood marker. This book will probably be the last work published on Nese.

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Canberra : ANU Press., 2023

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350 hlm

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English

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9781760465568

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Linguistics

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Lana Grelyn Takau

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Maya

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10.22459/GN.2023

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