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Nicholas Thieberger. 2006. A grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic language of Vanuatu.(Book review)
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Oceanic Linguistics
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December 1, 2007
- Author:
- Malau, Catriona Hyslop
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Nicholas Thieberger. 2006. A grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic language of Vanuatu. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 33. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. xxviii + 384 pp., ill., maps + 1 DVD-ROM. ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3061-8. $39.00, paper.
The publication of Nicholas Thieberger's (T) A grammar of South Efate (GSE) is significant narrowly to the field of Oceanic linguistics, and more broadly to descriptive linguistics and the production of reference grammars. I will return to its narrow significance later, as it is the importance of this work as a model for grammar writers that is most noteworthy. GSE, along with Stephen Morey's The Tai languages of Assam ...