A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham - History, Contact, and Phonology

This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts.

About the author

Graham Thurgood, Ela Thurgood, and Li Fengxiang, California State University, Chico, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Li Fengxiang, El Thurgood, Ela Thurgood, Graha Thurgood, Graham Thurgood
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781614517344
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-734-4
• No. of pages: 404
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Pacific Linguistics; Pacific Linguistics [Pl]; Pacific Linguistics; Pacific Linguistics [PL]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures