A grammar of Akabea /

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Zamponi, Raoul (Author), Comrie, Bernard, 1947- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Miscellaneous languages
Language Notes:	Text in English and Andamanese.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Andamanese language > Grammar. Great Andamanese (Indic people) > Languages. Andaman (Langue) > Grammaire. Social History. HISTORY. Linguistics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES. Syntax. Phonetics & Phonology. Cultural. Anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE. Andamanese language > Grammar Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Phonemes
Chapter 3: Stems
Chapter 4: Words
Chapter 5: Phrases
Chapter 6: Clauses
Chapter 7: Complex sentences
Chapter 8: Discourse phenomena
Chapter 9: Texts
Chapter 10: Conclusion and prospects
Appendix A: Original spellings and translations of examples (1)-(1068)
Appendix B: Comparative Akabea-Akarbale basic lexical items
References
Author index
Language index
Subject index.