TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thurgood,Graham
AU  - Thurgood,Ela
AU  - Li,Fengxiang
TI  - A grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham: history, contact, and phonology 
T2  - Pacific linguistics,
AV  - PL4491.95.H35 T48 2014eb
U1  - 499/.22 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Boston, Berlin
PB  - De Gruyter/Mouton
KW  - Cham language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - China
KW  - Hainan Sheng
KW  - History
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Phonology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index; The people and the setting -- Legends and history -- The linguistic setting -- The Hainan Cham sound system -- Acoustic analyses -- Word classes -- Clause types -- Discourse pragmatics -- Contact summary -- Appendix A: English-Hainan Cham glossary -- Appendix B: the St�ubel wordlist -- Appendix C: Sanya Mandarin
N2  - "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"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=11006135
ER  -