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LEADER: 01957cam a2200361 i 4500
001 2014013173
003 DLC
005 20140910083124.0
008 140401s2014 mauab b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2014013173
020 $a9781614517344 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $z9781614516040 (ebook)
040 $aNIC/DLC$beng$cNIC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $aa-cc-ha
050 00 $aPL4491.95.H35$bT48 2014
082 00 $a499/.22$223
100 1 $aThurgood, Graham,$eauthor.
245 12 $aA grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham :$bhistory, contact, and phonology /$cGraham Thurgood, Ela Thurgood, Li Fengxiang.
264 1 $aBoston ;$aBerlin :$bDe Gruyter/Mouton,$c[2014]
300 $axxiv, 404 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aPacific Linguistics ;$vvolume 643
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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 Stübel wordlist -- Appendix C: Sanya Mandarin.
520 $a"This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aCham language$xDialects$zChina$zHainan Sheng$xHistory.
650 0 $aCham language$xGrammar.
650 0 $aCham language$xPhonology.
700 1 $aThurgood, Ela,$eauthor.
700 1 $aLi, Fengxiang,$eauthor.