Download or read book Grammar and Dictionary of Neo Melanesian written by Francis Mihalic and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary grammar Neo Melanesian written by Francis Mihalic and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jacaranda Dictionary and Grammar of Melanesian Pidgin written by Francis Mihalic and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The book of Pidgin English Neo Melanesian written by John Joseph Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neo Melanesian English Concise Dictionary written by and published by Hippocrene Concise Dictionary. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken primarily in eastern New Guinea and nearby islands, the New Guinea Pidgin language-also called Neo-Melanesian-is one of the most important forms of Pidgin in use today. It contains several dialects, and many words are specific to certain regions; this dictionary collects all universally used vocabulary, and is an especially valuable tool for those first learning the language. The reader can rest assured that the words contained within will be understood by all speakers of Neo-Melanesian, regardless of individual dialect.
Download or read book Grammar and Dictionary of Neo Melanesian written by Francis Mihalic and published by Westmead, N.S.W., Westmead Print.. This book was released on 1957 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Materials for the Study of New Guinea Pidgin written by Donald C. Laycock and published by . This book was released on 1965* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Pidgin English Neo Melanesian written by John Joseph Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wampar English Dictionary written by Hans Fischer and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnographic dictionary is the result of Hans Fischer’s long-term fieldwork among the Wampar, who occupy the middle Markham Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Their language, Dzob Wampar, belongs to the Markham family of the Austronesian languages. Today most Wampar speak not only Wampar but also PNG’s lingua franca, Tok Pisin. Six decades of Wampar research has documented the extent and speed of change in the region. Today, mining, migration and the commodification of land are accelerating the pace of change in Wampar communities, resulting in great individual differences in knowledge of the vernacular. This dictionary covers largely forgotten Wampar expressions as well as loanwords from German and Jabêm that have become part of everyday language. Most entries contain example sentences from original Wampar texts. The dictionary is complemented by an overview of ethnographic research among Wampar, a sketch of Wampar grammar, a bibliography and an English-to-Wampar finder list.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Language of Mota Sugarloaf Island Banks Islands with a Short Grammar and Index written by Robert Henry Codrington and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Lives in Language Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities written by Miriam Meyerhoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.
Download or read book Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Sa A and Ulawa Solomon Islands Classic Reprint written by Walter G. Ivens and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Sa a and Ulawa, Solomon Islands The two languages, Sa'a and Ulawa, of which a dictionary is here presented, belong to one of the Melanesian groups of the Oceanic family of languages. Ulawa is the language spoken in the ten villages of the small island of Ulawa, the Contrariete Island of the charts, in the southeast Solomons. Sa'a is spoken in its purity in the village of the same name, the last inhabited place on the southeast extremity of the large island of Malaita, which lies some 30 miles west of Ulawa. Malaita is composed of two islands, commonly called Big and Little Malaita, separated by a narrow channel designated Mara Masiki Channel on the Admiralty chart, but called Laloi Su'u (literally "within-the-inlet") by the people who use the languages presented here. Sa'a is situated on the Malaita coast exactly opposite Ulawa, and there is constant communication between the two places during the calmer weather after the dropping of the southeast trade winds. The two languages are evidently from a common stock and are so closely allied that it has been found quite possible in the present work to adjust the various details to the same scheme of treatment, both as to grammar and vocabulary. Of the two, Sa'a is far more highly specialized than Ulawa. This specialization is shown: 1. In the use of nouns in the singular number, and particularly of such as are the names of parts of the body, without the definite article nga being prefixed. 2. In the very careful observance of the phonetic rule that the vowel a changes to e in certain words after a preceding i or u or after the verbal particle ko. 3. In the very frequent use of the gerundive. 4. In the richer vocabulary and in the employment of words not used in Ulawa in order to avoid uncertainty in meaning, e. g., Sa'a nume house, nime bowl, where Ulawa employs nima for both; Sa'a domu to fall (of persons only) in addition to 'usu, where Ulawa has only 'usu for both. 5. In the fuller forms of the pronoun used as subject of the verb and in the more particular and careful use of the quasi-trinal forms ending in -lu. 6. In the dropping of an inner consonant in the reduplication of stems. The name of Contrariete Island is Ulawa and not Ulava or Ulaua, as is sometimes found; the language has no v sound, and in Lau, where w changes to q (kw), the island is known as Ulaqa. The number of persons who live on Ulawa and who speak Ulawa is not more than 1,200 at the outside; but the language has a certain and considerable extrinsic importance in view of the fact that a number of villages on Ugi, the island lying off the east coast of San Cristoval, have Ulawa teachers and are using Ulawa books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Melanesian Pidgin English written by Robert Anderson Hall and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gwe written by Arnold Perey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High in the mountains of New Guinea are a people untouched by contact with whites-the Mengti people. A baby is born, and given the name Gwe, meaning "seed." One night, as he nestles in his mother's arms, five days' walk away across a freezing mountain range, two white Australian patrol officers and a black policeman are killed in a surprise attack. The Australian press calls it murder. The native warriors call it justice. We see Gwe grow up, save his father's life during an armed conflict, and learn of the goddess inhabiting a towering pine tree. Meanwhile, Alan Hull, studying anthropology in America, travels to New Guinea for research. The young anthropologist who impatiently questions people, demanding "data" and arousing anger, comes to see-intensely-that Gwe's people deserve his respect and kindness; that they have emotions like he does and are not "numbers" to put in notebooks in order to advance his career. Racist preconceptions are opposed with true perception about inner lives on an island.
Download or read book The Handbook of World Englishes written by Braj B. Kachru and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newlycommissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions andcase studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied andpedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around theworld. Represents the cross-cultural and internationalcontextualization of the English language Articulates the visions of scholars from major varieties ofworld Englishes – African, Asian, European, and North andSouth American Discusses topics including the sociolinguistic contexts ofvarieties of English in the inner, outer, and expanding circles ofits users; the ranges of functional domains in which thesevarieties are used; the place of English in language policies andlanguage planning; and debates about English as a cause of languagedeath, murder and suicide.
Download or read book Melanesian Pidgin English Short Grammar and Vocabulary written by Robert Anderson Hall and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Melanesian Languages written by Robert Henry Codrington and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
