Free Download John Lynch, "Naman: A Vanishing Language of Malakula (Vanuatu)"
English | 2006 | pages: 310 | ISBN: 0858835657 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Terry Crowley submitted the manuscript of this book to Pacific Linguistics just a few weeks before his sudden and untimely death in January 2005. Terry had been visiting the island of Malakula in Vanuatu since the end of 1999, and had undertaken studies of four languages spoken there: Naman, Tape and Nese, which are all moribund languages, and Avava, still actively spoken. Descriptions of all four were well advanced at the time of his death, though this one was the only one to have been actually submitted for publication.