LINGUIST List 5.1263

Wed 09 Nov 1994

Books: Dictionaries, Australian Lang, Oceania

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    DICTIONARIES Crowley, T. A DICTIONARY OF PAAMESE. 1992; xii+256pp. (incl. 1 map). ISBN 085883 412 X. AUS$35.00. Pacific Linguistics, C-121. ??? This ia a dictionary of the Austronesian language spoken on the island of Paama in Vanuatu (formely the New Hybrides) in the south-west Pacific. Beside the Paamese-English listing the dictionary also contains an English-Paamese index. It complements the author's The Paamese language of Vanuatu (published by Pacific Linguistics in 1982). Bradley, D. A DICTIONARY OF THE NORTHERN DIALECT OF LISU (CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA). 1994; xii+275pp. ISBN 0 85883 423 5. AU$30.30 Pacific Linguistics, C-126. This dictionary describes the lexicon on the northern dialect of Lisu as spoken by most Lisu, especially those living in the Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture north-western Yunnan. It represents Lisu forms in the new Lisu orthography as used by the majority of Lisu in China. It is based on the Lisu-Chinese dictionary edited by Xu Lin, MU Yuzhang et. al., and published by the Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House in 1985. Beside the Lisu-English listing this dictionary contains an English-Lisu index. AUSTRALIAN LANGS Thieberger, N. HANDBOOK OF WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES SOUTH OF THE KIMBERLEY REGION. 1993; vii+408pp. (incl. 6 maps). ISBN 0 85883 418 9. AUS$40.50 Pacific Linguistics, C-124. This handbook lists material available in and about the Aboriginal languages spoken south of Kimberley region, Western Australia. Sixty-nine languages are discussed including two post-contact languages, Western Australian Aboriginal English and Kriol. Each section contains caps showing the approximate traditional locations of the languages concerned. Hercus, L. A GRAMMAR OF THE ARABANA-WANGKANGURRU LANGUAGE, LAKE EYRE BASIN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 1994: xx+324pp. (incl.2 maps, 12 photographs). ISBN 0 85883 425 1. AUS$43.80. Pacific Linguistics, C-128. In this volume Luise Hercus records the grammar of a language that was once spoken to the north and west of lake eure, south Australia, and is now all but extinct. Arabana and Wangkangurru are closely related dialects of one language although the speakers regard them as separate languages. Besides the grammar this book contains a number of thexts and photographs of some of the principal informants used in the study. OCEANIA Hamel, P. A GRAMMAR AND LEXICON OF LONIU, PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 1994; ix+275pp. (incl. 1 map). ISBN 0 85883 410 3. Pacific Linguistics, C-103. This is a grammar and short dictionary of the small Austronesian language spoken by 450-500 inhabitants of two villages of two villages on the southern coast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. The books also contains an English-Loniu index and two illustrative texts. Ferreirinho, N. SELECTED TOPICS IN THE GRAMMAR OF LIMOS KALINGA, THE THE PHILIPPINES. 1993: viii+125pp. (incl.1 map). ISBN 0 85883 4197. AUS$34.00 Pacific Linguistics, B-109. Limos Kalinga is one of ten dialects of Kalinga, a Central Cordilleran language spoken in the northern part of Luzon, The Philippines. The study includes a description of word classes, noun phrase and verbal morphology, different types of sentences, topicalisation, and reduplication. It laso includes a sample text. Brainard, S. KARAO PHONOLOGY, THE PHILIPPINES, 1994; vi+259pp. (incl. 1 map). ISBN 0 85883 420 0. AUS$30.00 Pacific Linguistics, B-110. Karao is a small Southern Cordilleran language spoken in northern Luzon near Baguio and nestled in the midst of some 90,000-100,000 Ibaloi speakers. The language is notable for the amount of variation in the forms of words that speakers accept. The study argues thet theese variations can be explained in termns of moras, the primary organizing unit of phonlogical segments at the word level. Basel, Linda A. VERB MORPHOLOGY OF MORI, SULAWESI, 1994; x+139pp. ISBN 085883 421 9. AUS$23.20 Pacific Linguistics, B-111. Mori is an Austronesian language of central and south Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is spoken by about 30,000 people living in this area and by about another 10,000 people living in the urban centres of Sulawesi and other Indonesian islands. Besides containing a detailed description of the verb in Mori this study includes a phonological sketch of the language and a sample text.
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