Mouton de Gruyter, 2012. — 476 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 60). — ISBN10: 3110289628; ISBN13: 978-3110289626. Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six...
Louvain-Paris: Peeters, 2002. — 526 p. — (Langues et cultures du Pacifique 16; Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France / Selaf 403). Nêlêmwa et Nixumwak sont deux variantes dialectales de l’une des vingt-huit langues de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, parlée par un millier de locuteurs dans l’Extrême-Nord de la Grande Terre (île principale de l’archipel), dans la...
University of Manchester, 2015. — 300 p. In the present study, I describe the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Caac is a minority language whose transmission process is not ensured anymore; it is also an under-documented language. Part I provides a concise description of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 324 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 650). In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait of this language...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2005. — xi + 74 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 573). The Merei language is spoken by about four hundred people in the villages of Angoru, Navele, Tombet and Vusvogo in the interior of Espiritu Santo Island , Vanuatu . Merei, like most other languages from the interior of Espiritu Santo , has not...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2009. — viii + 295 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 603). More than eighty Oceanic languages are spoken in the northern and central island of Vanuatu . This book provides the first detailed internal comparison of these languages. Several hundred cognate sets and reconstructed proto forms provide a basis...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2006. — 229 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 574). This is one of four monographs on Malakula languages that Terry Crowley had been working on at the time of his sudden death in January 2005. One of the four, Naman: a vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu) , had been submitted to Pacific Linguistics a...
University of Hawaii Press, 1998. — xiii + 294 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication 27). This volume presents a description of the language that is currently spoken on the island of Erromango, in southern Vanuatu. The languages of southern Vanuatu are structurally different from other Oceanic languages. Sye has an unusually complex morphological system and it offers a...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2006. — xxi + 287 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 576). Naman is an endangered Oceanic language of central Malakula, Vanuatu.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2006. — 93 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 577). Edited by John Lynch This is one of four monographs on Malakula languages that Terry Crowley had been working on at the time of his sudden death in January 2005. One of the monographs, Naman: a vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu) , had been submitted...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2006. — xviii + 199 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 575). Lexicon and grammar of Tape, a moribund Southern Oceanic language that is now spoken by only a handful of older people some distance away from their traditional homeland in northwestern Malakula, Vanuatu.
Pacific Linguistics, 2006. — xvi + 213 p. Avava is an Oceanic language of central Malekula, Vanuatu. The current description is part of a major effort by a number of different scholars leading towards the description of half-dozen or so languages of Malakula that were previously almost completely undocumented.
Australian Catholic University, 1979. — 399 p. The present work is a description of the language spoken on the island of Paama in the New Hebrides, a language which is otherwise undescribed except for a short grammatical sketch that was published in the early 1900's on the basis of a missionary's translation of the Bible. The language, referred to throughout as "Paamese" in the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — xi + 268 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 87). — ISBN: 0858832798. Paamese , along with most of the one hundred or so languages of Vanuatu, with the exception of a few Polynesian outliers and the languages of the southern islands (Aneityum , Tanna and Erromango), belongs to the North Hebridean...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1999. — xiii + 226 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 156). — ISBN 0858835207. This description comprises a detailed grammar sketch of the moribund Ura language of southern Vanuatu, along with a compilation of texts, as well as the author’s entire lexical corpus. Given that Crowley was working with a...
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009. — 288 p.
This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Nahavaq, an Oceanic language spoken by about 700 people in the Sinesip cultural area of Malakula, Vanuatu. Nahavaq was previously undescribed, and this grammar is based on data collected by the researcher over a total of nine months in...
University of Auckland, 2010. — 117 p. This thesis presents a description of the Noun Phrase in the language spoken on Atchin Island in Central Vanuatu. The indigenous language of Atchin islanders belongs to the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. Atchin is thought to be a dialect of the Northeast Malakula language which is estimated to have a population of...
Australian Catholic University, 2020. — 266 p. If we are to understand global linguistic diversity, we must first understand the mechanisms which engender and maintain it. This is what the Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity project (Australian National University, 2014-2019) aims to examine by studying variation in small communities of the Australasia-Pacific region. Within...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1979 — xii + 139 p. ISBN: 085883183X The Big Nambas language is spoken by approximately 2000 people throughout North Malekula. At present there are nineteen inhabited Big Nambas villages which use the language exclusively, but there is no evidence of dialect variation throughout...
ANU Research Publications, 2015. — 263 p.
With an estimated 138 different indigenous languages, Vanuatu is the country with the highest linguistic density in the world. While they all belong to the Oceanic family, these languages have evolved in three millennia, from what was once a unified dialect network, to the mosaic of different languages that we know today. In this...
Paris (Franis): [self published], 2003. — ii + 75 p. “Once upon a time” is a booklet of traditional stories in Mwotlap (without a translation into a western language, there is a short introduction written in Bislama). Mwotlap (pronounced [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap], formerly known as Motlav) is an Oceanic language (belonging to the Austronesian language family) spoken by about 2,100 people in...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — xviii + 353 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 522). — ISBN: 0858834936. Araki, an unwritten Austronesian language belonging to the Oceanic subgroup, is now spoken by less than a dozen people in a small islet of Vanuatu; it is likely to disappear very soon. As the first ever publication about this...
Leuven; Paris: Peeters, 2003. — xx + 388 p. — (Collection Linguistique publiée par la Société de Linguistique de Paris 84). — ISBN: 90-429-1271-5. Langue mélanésienne de tradition orale, le mwotlap (motlav) appartient à la branche océanienne de la famille austronésienne; il est actuellement parlé par environ 1800 locuteurs, au nord de l’archipel du Vanuatu. Tout en décrivant...
Paris: [self published], 2000-2004. — 32 p. This booklet is an ABC-book for Mwotlap school-children (obviously, in Mwotlap language, only the title is translated into Bislama). Mwotlap (pronounced [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap], formerly known as Motlav) is an Oceanic language (belonging to the Austronesian language family) spoken by about 2,100 people in Vanuatu. The majority of speakers are found...
SOAS, University of London, 2012. — 406 p. North Ambrym, an Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu, exhibits the two common Oceanic possessive construction types: direct and indirect. This thesis focuses on the indirect construction which occurs when the possessed noun refers to a semantically alienable item. In North Ambrym the indirect possessive construction is marked by one of...
University of Hawaii Press, 2011. — 426 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication 39). Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1974. — x + 99 p. Sakao is a Melanesian language of Espiritu Santo (Vanuatu) spoken by approximately 1000 inhabitants of the north-eastern peninsula of the island in and north of the villages of Kolé and Lowérié. This study is concerned with the northern dialect of Sakao, henceforth referred to as Sakao, which is spoken...
Victoria University of Wellington / Te Herenga Waka, 2024. — 450 p. In the country of Vanuatu, there are estimated to be as many as 138 different languages. Of those, there are still many languages which remain undocumented. Yet, with the move to integrate the vernacular local languages into the education system, speakers of these languages are developing orthography systems as...
Paris: Peeters, 1999. — 184 p. — (Langues et cultures du Pacifique 13; Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France / Selaf 377). « Ne pas alourdir ses pensées du poids de ses souliers » recommandait André Breton. Mais les explorateurs, les missionnaires, les administrateurs en tournée, n’ont fait que cela. D’où les contretemps, les mésententes, dont est semée...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — xxxiv + 476 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 515). — ISBN 0858834537. This book is a grammatical description of the Lolovoli dialect of the North-East Ambae language of Vanuatu, a member of the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian. It is a conservative Oceanic language, possessing some typical Oceanic...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2011. — xxx + 449 p. — ISBN: 9780858836334. Tamambo is the predominant dialect of the traditional language of the island of Malo, Vanuatu. An Oceanic language, it is spoken as a first language by over three to four thousand people who live in the western area of Malo and other scattered villages throughout the island, and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2011. — 479 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 622). Tamambo is a previously undescribed language of northern Vanuatu, now spoken by approximately 4000 people. It is a conservative Oceanic language, reflecting many of the consonant phonemes posited for Proto Oceanic (POc); lexically, many Tamambo words are...
SOAS, University of London, 2014. — 396 p. The focus of the thesis is the expression of static spatial events in Ske, a previously undescribed Oceanic language spoken by a few hundred people on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. Static spatial events can be split in to two types: non-angular reference, used to express topological relations such as 'in', 'on' or 'near'; and angular...
University of Melbourne, 2019. — 353 p. In this thesis I study the meaning of tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) expressions in Nafsan (South Efate), an Oceanic language of Vanuatu, from a typological perspective. I focus on the meanings of the perfect aspect and realis/irrealis mood in Nafsan and other Oceanic languages, as case studies for investigating the cross-linguistic...
Australian National University, 2023. — 172 p. In Lelepa, an Oceanic language spoken in central Vanuatu, syntactic subjects are described as being expressed obligatorily through a subject proclitic at the beginning of the verb complex and optionally with a preverbal subject NP, headed by either a lexical noun or a free pronoun (Lacrampe, 2014). However, evidence has suggested...
Lincom Europa, 1994. — 60 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 2). There are slightly more than one hundred languages spoken by the 150,000 inhabitants of the Republic of Vanuatu in the southwest Pacific. Kwamera is one of five languages spoken by almost 3000 people on the island of Tanna in that country. Like its close relatives, however, it is somewhat aberrant...
LINCOM, 1994. — 47 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 2). — ISBN: 9783929075052. There are slightly more than one hundred languages spoken by the 150,000 inhabitants of the Republic of Vanuatu in the southwest Pacific. Kwamera is one of five languages spoken by almost 3000 people on the island of Tanna in that country. Like its close relatives, however, it is somewhat...
Pacific Linguistics. A-64. Papers in Linguistics of Melanesia. No. 4. 1982. — 1-91. Southwest Tanna is a dialect chain spoken on the southwestern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — 202 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 517). Vanuatu has more languages for its population size than any other country in the world. Many of these are almost completely undescribed, while differing amounts of information have been recorded on (and in) other languages. This volume sets out to survey...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2000. — 180 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 507). — ISBN: 0858834847. Anejom is spoken on the island of Aneityum and is a member of the Southern Vanuatu subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages. It is unusual among Vanuatu languages in having VOS as its normal phrase order. Its phonology is somewhat...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1978 — 135 p. ISBN: 085883166X. The Lenakel language is spoken by around 3000 people in the central west of the island of Tanna, the most heavily populated island in the Southern District of Vanuatu. It is an Austronesian language, whose closest relatives are the other four languages...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — 229 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 79). — ISBN: 0858832844 This volume is essentially an exercise in salvage linguistics. Of the four Erromangan languages for which data will be presented, two are now extinct, a third is likely to become so in the very near future, while the one viable Erromangan...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — 334 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 509). Arthur Capell once said that 'the languages of Eromanga [sic], Tanna, and Aneityum diverge most of all from the rest of the New Hebrides, while not agreeing among themselves' (1962:383; my emphasis). Certainly, there is a reasonable amount of truth in...
De Gruyter, 2016. — xxvi, 779 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 651). This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Vurës language, spoken on the island of Vanua Lava, in the Banks group of islands, northern Vanuatu. Vurës is a previously undescribed language, with very few minor published works referring to the language.
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 600 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 78). This reference grammar provides a full grammatical description of the previously-undocumented Austronesian language variety known as Belep. Belep is spoken by approximately 1600 people in New Caledonia, primarily in the Belep Isles. This book is the first full-length English-language...
Paris: Peeters, 1995. — 256 p. — (Langues et cultures du Pacifique 10; SELAF / Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France 355). La région xârâcùù, comprise entre la région ajië (Houaïlou) au nord, et la région drubéa au sud, s'étend sur approximativement 820 km2 autour des villages de La Foa sur la côte Ouest, de Canala et Thio sur la côté Est. Elle est...
The Australian National University, 2007. — x + 156 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 587). The Neve'ei language is a member of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken in the village of Vinmavis on the west coast of the island of Malakula in the Republic of Vanuatu in the southwestern Pacific. It is estimated that there are approximately 500 primary...
SIL International, 2012. — vii + 258 p.
Tanna Island in Vanuatu has five major languages and perhaps as many as two dozen dialects. However, only a few grammar sketches and dictionaries have been published on the languages of Tanna. In this document, more than 1,700 of the commonly used lexemes in all of the five major languages as well as a dialect spoken on Tanna are...
University of Hawaii Press, 1995. — 322 p. — (Oceanic linguistics special publication 25). The present work is a slightly revised version of my doctoral dissertation submitted to the Australian National University. The volume presents an analysis of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Tinrin, a Melanesian language of southern New Caledonia. The analysis is based on...
Paris: Peeters Publishers, 1998. — 276 p. — (Langues et cultures du Pacifique 12; Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France / SELAF 367). Le nyelayu de Balade appartient au groupe nord des langues de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Haut lieu charge d'histoire (deuxieme voyage de Cook en 1774, expedition d'Entrecasteaux en 1793), Balade fut aussi, en 1843, le premier site...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1971. — ix + 128 p. ISBN: 0858830515.
The grammar presented here describes the main features of the language spoken in the south-west of the island. It has been used as a lingua franca by the Presbyterian Mission since before the turn of the century. The present work also gives...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1971. — 96 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 10). The Tales of Ambrym presented here are mainly in the Lonwolwol language, spoken in the South-West of the island; some are in the language of North Ambrym, as indicated in the text. In the first section of this volume, the texts are given with a literal...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 478 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 67). This reference grammar is the first description of the endangered Oceanic language Daakaka. This language is spoken by about 1000 speakers on the island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The data on which the analysis is based were collected by the author during a documentation project between 2009 and...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1893. - p. 386-397.
Malekula (or Mallicollo) is one of the largest islands of the New Hebrides. Tt is situated North West of Epi, and West of Ambrym, between 15° 45' and 16° 35' S. lat., and between 167° 7' and 167° 45' E. long. It was probably first heard of by Quiros at Taumaco in 1606 under the name of Manicolo, and must have...
Peeters Publishers, 1994. — 543 p. — (Selaf / Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France 345; Langues et cultures du Pacifique 9). Le cèmuhî (ou camuki) est une langue austronésienne qui fait partie des langues kanak, parlée par environ 3 300 locuteurs dans les communes de Touho, Koné et Poindimié (Province Nord) dans l’aire coutumière Paici-Camuki.
Paris: SELAF, 1973. — 214 p. — (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale 5). Le consonantisme de ces dialectes se caractérise notamment par une opposition graduelle de nasalite : nasales, semi-nasales, orales (occlusives et spirantes). L’opposition oral/nasal existe aussi pour les voyelles et provoque une mutation consonantique dans le dialecte d’Unya, par report du trait...
Vanuatu National Cultural Council, 2004. — 63 p.
This book is intended for speakers of English and Bislama who want to use the Paamese language in their daily lives on Paama. It does not spend much time on grammar, although it does explain how verbs are constructed. We do not promise fluency, only limited usability.
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — xvii, 345 p. — (Comprehensive Grammar Library 9). — ISBN 78-3-96110-479-6. Vamale is an endangered South Oceanic > Northern New Caledonian language, spoken by around 180 people on the northeastern coast of Grande Terre. This grammar was written as a PhD dissertation, on the basis of 11 months of fieldwork funded by ELDP. The data consists...
University of California, 2023. — 519 p. The Ninde language (Oceanic, Vanuatu) has been placed in a Malekula Interior subgroup(Tryon 1976) and a Western Malekula Linkage (Lynch 2016), but oral tradition identifies two parent languages (Letpen 2018). These three proposals have different consequences for which languages should be included in a comparative study, but the two...
The Australian National University, 2010. — 295 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 608). Abma, one of the largest indigenous languages of Vanuatu, is spoken by approximately 7,800 people in the central part of Pentecost Island. This volume presents a short grammar of the Abma language, including major sections on work class categorisation, phonology, morphology, phrase and clause-level...
1998 – 2003 – 2008. — 32 p. A short collection of stories in the Araki language, a disappearing oceanic language spoken in Araki Island, near South Santo, Vanuatu.
Australian National University, 2023. — 152 p. Lelepa is an Oceanic language spoken in central Vanuatu. It has been classified as exhibiting a complex syllable structure, unlike many other Oceanic languages which follow a prevalent CV syllable structure. The Lelepa syllable allows tautosyllabic consonant clusters in both onset and coda positions, with up to three consonants in...
Uppsala Universitet, 2018. — 59 p. Сверредаль Кристин. Очерк грамматики северного танна (на англ. яз.) North Tanna is a language spoken on the northern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. It is similar to Whitesands, but its exact position within the Tanna languages is not established. This book is a sketch grammar of the Austronesian North Tanna language of Vanuatu. The analysis...
ANU Press, 2023. — 350 p. — (Asia-Pacific 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...
ANU Press, 2023. — 352 p. — (Asia-Pacific 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...
University of Hawaii Press, 2021. — 210 p. This is a dictionary of Nafsan, the language spoken in Vanuatu in the south of Efate Island in the villages of Erakor, Pango, and Eratap. Nafsan is one of 130 distinct languages spoken in Vanuatu. Over several decades, linguist Nicholas Thieberger worked in close collaboration with the Erakor community to record this unique language...
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. — 417 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications 33). — ISBN: 082483061X. This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of Port Vila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the...
Université Paris-Sorbonne – Paris IV. 2014. — 588 p. Sakao is an Oceanic language spoken by more than 1500 people in the north-east area of Espiritu Santo Island (Vanuatu, South Pacific). The present thesis is based on a total of eight months' fieldwork. After a thorough description of the sociolinguistic situation in the area, it describes the main phonological, morphological,...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1976. — v + 545 p. ISBN: 085883152X.
The present study represents a first systematic attempt to establish a comprehensive language map of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), based on a collection of data from villages representing all known languages. It also provides substantial...
Canberra: The Australian National University, 2004. — 124 p. A transformational-tagmemic grammar of Drehu, a language of the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. This study examines the Dehu language, spoken on the island of Lifou by a population of some 7000 Melanesian inhabitants. It is based on linguistic material collected during fieldwork in the Loyalty Islands, under the...
University of Sydney, 1982. — 169 p. This study compares lexical data from three languages of northern Vanatu with the aim of producing a synohronically and distributionally based statement of the phonological correspondences between each possible language pair within the set; The lexical data For Rage and Apma were derived from the author’s own fieldwork, and that for Mota...
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