Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. — INALCO Paris - Langues O', 2021. — 688 p. This thesis provides the first description of Nalögo, a language spoken on Santa Cruz Island (Temotu Province, Solomon Islands). Nalögo is an Oceanic language belonging to the Reefs-Santa Cruz (RSC) group. This thesis is based on primary data collected by the author in the...
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2011. — 296 p. This dissertation will begin by presenting Kankanaey, a language of the Philippines, in its linguistic setting. It will then give an overview of the theoretical model used in this analysis, Role and Reference Grammar, as presented in Van Valin and LaPolla (1997) and Van Valin (2005). Chapter 2 begins the description of the...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Amsterdam: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2020. — xxvi, 397 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-355-4. This book presents a grammar description of Dhao, an endangered Austronesian language spoken by about 3000 people on Ndao Island in Eastern Indonesia. It is a member of the Sumba-Hawu subgroup in...
University of Hawaii, 2020. — 669 p. This dissertation is a documentation of Sula [ISO-639-3 szn, mqc; Glottocode sula1245, mang1408]. Sula is a critically to severely endangered language of North Maluku, Indonesia. This dissertation includes: demographic and ethnographic information about the community, the first description of the language’s primary dialect division, a...
La Trobe University, 2014. — 516 p. This thesis is a grammatical description of Tondano (Toulour dialect), an endangered Austronesian language primarily spoken in the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tondano has a number of typological similarities to indigenous languages spoken in the Philippines, northern Borneo, and Taiwan, with the most prominent being a...
University of Sydney, 2001. — 631 p. Nias Selatan is the smallest of three varieties of the language of Nias, an Austronesian language (western Malayo-Polynesian) spoken by around 700,000 people on the island of Nias off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. Nias Selatan differs from the other Nias varieties mainly in lexical items, in having a distinct irrealis mode and in...
University of Canterbury, 2013. — 222 p. Matéq is an Austronesian language of the Land Dayak (Bidayuhic) subgroup spoken by around 10,000–20,000 people in West Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. This thesis presents a sketch grammar of the language based on linguistic fieldwork conducted from September 2012 to January 2013. Topics discussed in the sketch grammar include the...
Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — [Melbourne] Victoria, Australia: The University of Melbourne, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, School of Languages and Linguistics, 2018. — xiv + 317 p. This thesis describes the phonology, morphology and syntax of Paku, a highly endangered East Barito language spoken in...
The Australian National University, 2001. — 474 p. This thesis presents a reconstruction of several valency-changing devices and a system of verb classes for Proto Oceanic. Proto Oceanic is the ancestor language of the Oceanic languages of the Pacific, a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. A characteristic of many Oceanic languages, and indeed Proto Oceanic, is the...
Australian Catholic University, 1991 — 504 p. Tawala is an Austronesian lan guage spoken in Milne Bay Province on the easternmost tip of the Papua New Guinea mainland. This thesis aims to present a general introduction and reference grammar for the Tawala language . Eight broad topics are handled. 1) The introductory chapter presents details of my involvement in the project and...
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. — Canberra, 1985. — 313 p. This thesis deals with phonology, morphology, syntax and the meanings related to the syntactic structures. Phonology Grammatical categories Word formation Noun phrases Relative clauses Basic clause types Passives Complementation Complex Sentences Conclusions
Ph.D.Thesis. — Central Queensland University, 2023. —754 p. Tiang is an Oceanic language spoken by about 4000 people on Djaul Island in the northwest of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The present grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on eight months of immersion fieldwork in the Tiang community and follows the framework of Basic Linguistic...
The University of Adelaide, 2016. — 355 p. This study is a grammatical description of an endangered language of eastern Indonesia called Lamaholot. The study focuses on the dialect spoken over the entire Solor Island by about 20,000 people residing in 33 villages and presents a detailed linguistic description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language.
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2013. — xx + 422 p. The Philippines, northern Sulawesi, and northern Borneo are home to two or three hundred languages that can be described as Philippine-type. In spite of nearly five hundred years of language documentation in the Philippines, and at least a century of work in Borneo and Sulawesi, the majority of these languages remain grossly...
The University of Waikato, 2010. — 404 p. Kwaraqae also written as Kwara'ae (previously called Fiu after the location of many of its speakers) is a language spoken in the north of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands. In 1999 there were 32,400 people known to speak the language. It is the largest indigenous vernacular of the Solomon Islands.
University of Newcastle, 2020. — 973 p. This thesis provides a description of Mono-Alu, a Northwest Solomonic (Oceanic, Austronesian) language. Mono-Alu is spoken by approximately 5,000 speakers on three islands in the Solomon Islands, just south of the border with Papua New Guinea. The varieties spoken on two of the three islands are described. The thesis includes a brief...
PhD Thesis. — Rice University, 2012. — 703 p. This study presents the grammar of the Lewotobi dialect of Lamaholot, an Austronesian language spoken in the eastern part of Flores Island and neighboring islands of Indonesia. Lamaholot belongs to the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian, within which it is in a subgroup with the languages of Timor and Roti. The...
University of Oregon, 2013. — 372 p. Bih is a Chamic (Austronesian) language spoken by approximately 500 people in the Southern highlands of Vietnam. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-based language documentation in Vietnam and written from a functional/typological perspective. The analysis in this...
University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008. — 378 p. Dupaningan Agta is an Austronesian language of the Philippine subgroup which is spoken in northeastern Luzon, Philippines by approximately 1,400 semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers belonging to the Negrito ethnic minority. The language is endangered, as it is beginning to lose child speakers. This dissertation introduces the language...
Rice University, 2013. — 319 p. This dissertation presents an analysis of the morphosyntax of Wangka, a dialect of Rembong-Riung, a language spoken in west-central Flores in eastern Indonesia. Wangka is spoken by about 5,000 people in three villages, while the Rembong-Riung language is spoken by about 40,000-50,000 people in total spread out over three regencies on the northern...
University of Hawai'i, 2017. — xxix + 693 p. Borneo is the third largest island in the world, and home to some 100 Austronesian languages (language numbers vary greatly depending on where one draws the sometimes arbitrary line between language and dialect). Borneo has been called both a “hot-spot” for linguistic change and a “cross-roads” for Austronesian comparative linguistics....
Australian National University, 2021. — 550 p. This thesis is a grammatical description of Dela (ISO 639-3:row), an Austronesian language of western Rote, eastern Indonesia, spoken by approximately 11,000 native speakers. The grammar describes and discusses issues from the phonology of the language to its discourse structure. Dela is a predominantly head-marking language with...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Utrecht: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2007. — xvi, 439 p. — ISBN: 978-90-78328-24-7. Mualang is a Malayic (Dayak) language spoken in the interior of western Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. Given the relatively large number of speakers (approximately 40,000 people), and due to its...
Ph.D.Thesis. — University of California, Berkeley, 2024. — 315 p. This dissertation describes and analyzes the morphology and syntax of verbal agreement in Uab Meto, an Austronesian language of Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The introduction provides background on Uab Meto, its speakers, and previous work on the language. Then the dissertationpresents analyses of several aspects of...
Диссертация на соискание ученой степени кандидата филологических наук. : 10.02.20 – сравнительно-историческое типологическое и сопоставительное языкознание. — Институт лингвистических исследований Российской Академии наук. — Санкт-Петербург, 2017. — 561 с. Научный руководитель: доктор филологических наук профессор В. С. Храковский. Целью данного исследования является...
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