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A Grammar of Neverver Grammar of Neverver

:	Julie Barbour
:	A Grammar of Neverver Grammar of Neverver
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110289619
:	Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]ISSN
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:	CHF 162.70
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:	English

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< >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 prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammaris of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.

< >Julie Barbour, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

	Acknowledgements	5
	Table of contents	7
	Tables and figures	19
	Abbreviations	21
	Maps	23
	1. Introduction	27
	1.1. Geographic and linguistic context	27
	1.1.1. Limap village	29
	1.1.2. Lingarakh village	30
	1.1.3. Multilingual interactions	31
	1.2. Historical origins	31
	1.2.2. Early work on Neverver	33
	1.3. An evaluation of language vitality	35
	1.3.2. Language statistics and transmission patterns	35
	1.3.3. Domains of use	36
	1.3.3.1. Religion	36
	1.3.3.2. Education	37
	1.3.3.3. Media	37
	1.3.4. Language support	38
	1.3.4.1. Local support	38
	1.3.4.2. Official support	39
	1.3.5. Literacy development and language documentation	40
	1.4. Emerging vernacular literacy practices	41
	1.4.2. Literacy in religion	41
	1.4.3. Literacy in entertainment	43
	1.4.4. Literacy in education	43
	1.5. Documenting Neverver	44
	1.5.2. Working with the Neverver speech community	47
	1.5.3. Describing Neverver	49
	2. Phonology	50
	2.0. Introduction	50
	2.1. The consonant inventory	50
	2.2. Distinctive features for Neverver consonants	51
	2.3. Consonant contrasts	52
	2.3.1. Nasals /m, n, q/	52
	2.3.2. Plain plosives /p, t, k/	53
	2.3.2.1. The /p/ segment	54
	2.3.2.2. The /t/ and /k/ segments	55
	2.3.3. Prenasalized plosives /b, d, g/	56
	2.3.4. The prenasalized bilabial trill /B/	58
	2.3.5. Plain fricatives /ß, s, ./	58
	60	58
	2.3.6. The prenasalized affricate /./	62
	2.3.7. Liquids /r, l/	63
	2.3.8. The prenasalized alveolar trill /D/	63
	2.3.8.1. Consonant sequences and the inflection of verb stems	64
	2.3.8.2. Consonant sequences and reduplication	65
	2.3.8.3. Syllable-final consonant clusters	65
	2.3.9. Non-lateral approximants /j, w/	66
	2.3.10. Geminates	68
	2.4. The vowel inventory	70
	2.4.1. Distinctive features for Neverver vowels	71
	2.4.2. Contrastive sets for the contemporary vowel segments	71
	2.4.3. Contrastive front rounded vowels /y/ and /Ø/	71
	2.4.4. Realizations of the high front vowel /i/	72
	2.4.5. Realizations of the high back vowel /u/	73
	2.4.6. Diphthongs	73
	2.4.7. Multi-vowel sequences	74
	2.5. Phonotactic constraints	75
	2.5.1. One-to-one association	76
	2.5.2. Unassociated C slots	76
	2.5.3. Type A simultaneous association	77
	2.5.4. Type B simultaneous association	79
	2.5.5. Violations of the phonotactic constraint	82
	2.5.5.1. Initial /tC-/sequences	82
	2.5.5.2. The formation of compounds	84
	2.6. Phonological processes	86
	2.6.1. Neutralization	86
	2.6.2. Metathesis	87
	2.6.3. Epenthesis	87
	2.6.3.1. Epenthetic schwa	88
	2.6.3.2. Epenthetic plosives [d] and [g]	89
	2.6.3.3. Epenthetic plosive [b]	89
	2.6.3.4. Established allomorphy for the irrealisnasal /m/	89
	2.6.3.5. Epenthetic [i]	91
	2.6.4. Apocope and syncope	91
	2.7. Stress	92
	2.7.1. Stress assignment in nouns	92
	2.7.2. Stress assignment in verbs	93
	2.8. Intonation patterns	94
	2.8.1. Terminal intonation	94
	2.8.2. Non-terminal intonation	95
	2.8.3. Polar interrogatives (§9.3.2.)	96
	2.9. Orthographic conventions	96
	3. Nominals	98
	3.0. Introduction	98
	3.1. Pronouns	98
	3.1.1. Independent personal pronouns	98
	3.1.2. Possessive determiners	101
	3.1.3. Possessive pronouns	102
	3.2. Noun classes	102
	3.3. Common nouns	103
	3.3.1. The function and distribution of the common noun prefix n(V)-	103
	3.3.2. The form of the common noun prefix	106
	3.3.3. A note on the syllabification of segmental vowel sequences	108
	3.3.4. Non-prototypical common nouns	109
	3.3.5. Common nouns with temporal meanings	110
	3.4. Personal nouns	113
	3.4.1. Personal proper names	113
	3.4.2. Personal kin terms	115
	3.5. Local nouns	117
	3.5.1. Proper place names	118
	3.5.2. Local nouns denoting familiar places	119
	3.5.3. Local nouns denoting significant features of the physical environment	119
	3.5.3.1. The absolute frame	119
	3.5.3.2. The absolute/deictic frame	121
	3.5.3.3. Locative part nouns	122
	3.5.4. Temporal local nouns	122
	3.5.4.1. Parts of the day	123
	3.5.4.2. Time counters	125
	3.6. Pronominal-nouns	126
	3.7. Nominalization processes	129
	3.7.1. Simple nominalization	129
	3.7.2. Simulfix nominalization	130
	3.7.2.1. Nominalizing intransitive verb stems	130
	3.7.2.2. Nominalization and	130