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Published by Pacific Linguistics / ANU. Canberra. ., 2005
ISBN 10: 0858835606ISBN 13: 9780858835603
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
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1st Ed. Pacific Linguistics No. 573. XI, 74 PP with 2 maps and 20 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5.
Published by Australian National University, 2005
ISBN 10: 0858835606ISBN 13: 9780858835603
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 74 p. Includes: maps, bibliography. Pacific Linguistics 573. The Merei language is spoken by about four hundred people in the villages of Angoru, Navele, Tombet and Vusvogo in the interior of Espiritu Santo Island , Vanuatu . Merei, like most other languages from the interior of Espiritu Santo , has not previously been described. Merei is an SVO language with many typical Oceanic features such as a split between alienable and inalienable possession and frequent verb serialisation. Morphological structure is relatively simple, but bi-morphemic nouns are common. The language is rigidly head-marking and prepositional. This work is mainly based on language data collected by the author in Navele village in Espiritu Santo Island of Vanuatu, where he lived from May 1995 until March 1997.