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oapen-20.500.12657-879892024-03-28T14:03:23Z A Grammar of Nese Grelyn Takau, Lana Nese Oceanic language Vanuatu language Malekula language Matanvat thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics 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. 2024-02-23T15:46:02Z 2024-02-23T15:46:02Z 2023 book ONIX_20240223_9781760465568_19 9781760465568 9781760465551 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87989 eng Asia-Pacific Linguistics application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International book.pdf ANU Press ANU Press 10.22459/GN.2023 10.22459/GN.2023 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760465568 9781760465551 ANU Press 350 Canberra open access
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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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