Title: Central Sinama-English Dictionary
Series Title: Publications in Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: SIL International Publications
http://www.sil.org/resources/publications
Book URL: https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/99474

Author: A. Kemp Pallesen
Author: Anne Carol Pallesen
Author: Lydia James
Author: Jeremiah J James
Hardback: ISBN: 9781556715570 Pages: 827 Price: U.S. $ 84.95
Abstract:

A milestone in Sinama (Sama) [sml] research has been reached with the publication of the Central Sinama–English Dictionary, making available a wealth of lexical, grammatical, and cultural information on a lesser-researched but important language of the Sulu archipelago in southwestern Philippines.

The collection of words and study of culture was compiled over 60 years, initially capturing a rare snapshot of Sama language and culture in Sulu in the 1960s and 1970s. The dictionary database was expanded in subsequent years through the efforts of contributors and researchers, with each entry containing well chosen, highly idiomatic, and culturally rich example sentences. The local speech community will find it a rich practical resource, as will Philippine university researchers and schoolteachers.

This volume will be of value to Austronesianists, anthropologists, typologists, and theoretical linguists, and lexicographers will be interested in the use of FLEx tools for cross-referencing the web of thesaurus relations.

Forward by Robert Blust
Endorsed by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, and David Crystal
Available in both hardback and ePub (Kindle).

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Sama, Central (sml)

Language Family(ies): Austronesian
Barito
Malayo-Polynesian
Sama-Bajaw

Written In: English (eng)