LINGUIST List 17.3288

Sun Nov 12 2006

Books: Language Description: Crowley, Lynch (Ed)

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Directory         1.    Julie Manley, The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu): Crowley, Lynch (Ed)

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Message 1: The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu): Crowley, Lynch (Ed)
Date: 04-Nov-2006
From: Julie Manley <jmanleycoombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu): Crowley, Lynch (Ed)


Title: The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu) Published: 2006 Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
                http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

Book URL: http://www.pacling.com/catalogue/574.html

Author: Terry T. Crowley Editor: John Lynch Paperback: ISBN: 058835649 Pages: Price: AUS $ 54.50 Comment: In Australia AUS $59.95 (incl. GST)
Abstract:

Avava currently falls into the category described in Lynch and Crowley(2001:14-19) as being among the most poorly documented of all languages inVanuatu . Published documentation of this language by a linguist isrestricted to two fairly short wordlists in Tryon (1976). In addition tothis recent data, there is also a very small amount of published data onthe Umbbuul variety of this language that can be extracted from Deacon(1934:125), which derives from his anthropological fieldwork in the area in1926. This data, however, is restricted to just a small number of kin termsfor each variety, with no other vocabulary having been recorded.

Avava is the primary language today of four villages in central Malakula:Tisvel, Khatbol, Taremp and Tembimbi. In contrast to the Naman and Tapelanguages of Malakula that I have worked on previously, Avava is anactively spoken language which continues to be passed on to present-daygenerations of children in all of these villages.

This is one of four monographs on Malakula languages that Terry Crowley hadbeen working on at the time of his sudden death in January 2005. One of thefour, Naman: a vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu) , had beensubmitted to Pacific Linguistics a couple of weeks earlier, and theremaining three were in various stages of completion, and John Lynch wasasked by the Board of Pacific Linguistics to prepare all four forpublication, both as a memorial to Terry and because of the valuable datathey contain.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Description
Subject Language(s): Katbol (tmb)
Written In: English (eng )

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