User:Womtelo/Vanuatu-languages/References

This page will list some bibliographical references about individual languages of Vanuatu. It is meant to be edited by anyone who is knowledgeable about Vanuatu linguistics.


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=General references on Vanuatu languages=
 * Tryon, Darrell, 1976. New Hebrides Languages: An Internal Classification. Pacific Linguistics Series C - No. 50. Canberra: Australian National University.

=Bislama=
 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/bis


 * Camden, Pastor Bill. 1979. Parallels in structure of lexicon and syntax between New Hebrides Bislama and the South Santo language as spoken at Tangoa. Pacific Linguistics, A-57:51-117.
 * Charpentier, Jean-Michel 1979. Le pidgin bislama(n) et le multilinguisme aux Nouvelles-Hébrides. Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale 35. Paris: SELAF.
 * Crowley, Terry. 1990. Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The emergence of a national language in Vanuatu. Oxford Studies in Language Contact. Oxford: Clarendon Press. xxi + 422pp.
 * Crowley, Terry. 1995. An illustrated Bislama-English and English-Bislama dictionary. Vila: Pacific Languages Unit and Vanuatu Extension Centre, University of the South Pacific. (Revised 2004.) vii + 478pp. * Builds on the work of Camden (1977) and other sources to provide a very comprehensive modern dictionary of modern Bislama, together with a comprehensive English index.
 * Crowley, Terry. 2004. Bislama Reference Grammar. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 31. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
 * Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier. 2004. Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Origins, Growth and Development. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. xix + 559 pp. Hardcover ISBN 3-11-016998-3.



=Northern Vanuatu languages=

Banks & Torres languages

 * General references covering the Torres & Banks area (with data from its 17 languages):






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Dorig

 * Link to WP entry: Dorig language
 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/wwo


 * References

Hiw

 * Link to WP entry: Hiw language
 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/hiw


 * References

Mota

 * Link to WP entry: Mota language
 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mtt


 * References

Mwotlap

 * Link to WP entry: Mwotlap language
 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mlv


 * References
 * François, Alexandre (2001), Contraintes de structures et liberté dans l'organisation du discours. Une description du mwotlap, langue océanienne du Vanuatu. PhD dissertation, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne. 1078 pp.
 * François, Alexandre (2001), Contraintes de structures et liberté dans l'organisation du discours. Une description du mwotlap, langue océanienne du Vanuatu. PhD dissertation, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne. 1078 pp.





Northeast Ambae

 * Link to WP entry: East Ambae language
 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/omb



Sungwadia

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mrb



Tamambo

 * Link to WP entry: Tamambo language
 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mla


 * References





Comment: add 2011 grammar reference


 * Links

=Central Vanuatu languages=

South Efate
Link to WP entry: South Efate language Link to OLAC entry http://www.language-archives.org/language/erk Read and hear example texts in South Efate: http://www.eopas.org/transcripts?language_code=erk


 * Anon. 1868. Nalag nig Efat. Trans. D. Morrison. Sydney: Mason, Firt, nigar asler (Mason, Firth and Co).
 * Anon. 1892. Tusi nalag Efate Niu Ebrites. Sydney: F. Cunninghame and Co.
 * Anon. 1979. Natus nalag (213 pp).
 * Bible. 1864. Nadus iskei nig Fat. Aneityum: Mission Press.
 * Bible. 1866. Nafsanwi nig Iesu Krist nag Mark. Trans. D. Morrison. Sydney: Sheriff and Downing.
 * Bible. 1874. Kenesis natus a bei nag Moses ki mtir i. Trans. Cosh, J. Sydney: British and Foreign Bible Society.
 * Bible. 1875? Nafisan nafousien. Sydney: F. Cunninghame and Co.
 * Bible. 1883. The Gospel according to Luke. Trans. Macdonald, D.D. Melbourne: M.L. Hutchinson.
 * Bible. 1885. The Gospel according to John, Tus Nanrognrogona Uia ni Iesu Kristo nag Ioane i mitiria. Trans. Mackenzie, J., Macdonald, D.D. Sydney: F. Cunninghame and Co.
 * Bible. 1919.  Natus bei ni nafisan ni Efate. Sydney: Epworth Press.
 * Bible. 1919. Tusi tab fao (New Testament). Trans. Mackenzie, J., Macdonald, D.D. Melbourne: British and Foreign Bible Society.
 * Bible. 1923. Scripture History. Sydney: Epworth Printing and Publishing House.
 * Bible. 1923. Nafakoron ni aliat. Erakor Efate, New Hebrides. Nouméa: Imprimerie A.-L. Laubreaux.
 * Bible. n.d. Nawisien nig Nagmer Apostol. Sydney: F. Cunninghame and Co.
 * Clark, Ross. 1973. Transitivity and case in eastern Oceanic languages. Oceanic Linguistics 12(1–2). 559–606.
 * ––––– 1978. The New Hebridean outliers. In Wurm, S.A. and L.Carrington, (eds.), Second International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: proceedings. Fascicle 2: eastern Austronesian. (Pacific Linguistics Series) Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 911–928.
 * ––––– 1982. “Necessary” and “unnecessary” borrowing. In Halim, A. (ed.), Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Vol.3: Accent on variety. C 76 ed. (Pacific Linguistics Series): Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 137–143.
 * ––––– 1985. The Efate dialects. Te Reo 28.:3–35.
 * ––––– 1996. Linguistic consequences of the Kuwae eruption. In J. M. Davidson, G. Irwin, B. F. Leach, A. Pawley and D. Brown (eds.), Oceanic culture history: essays in honour of Roger Green. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology Special Publication. 275–285.
 * ––––– n.d. The Efate-Tongoa dialects (Ms).
 * Codrington, Robert Henry (R. H.). 1885. The Melanesian Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
 * Lynch, John. 2000. South Efate phonological history. Oceanic Linguistics 39(2):320–338.
 * ––––– 2001. The linguistic history of Southern Vanuatu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
 * ––––– 2004. The Efate-Erromango Problem in Vanuatu Subgrouping. Oceanic Linguistics 43(2):311–338.
 * Thieberger, Nicholas 2006a. A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication, No. 33. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
 * ––––– 2006b. The benefactive construction in South Efate. Oceanic Linguistics, Volume 45, no. 2, 297-310.
 * ––––– 2007. The demise of serial verbs in South Efate. Diana Eades, John Lynch and Jeff Siegel (eds.), Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 237-251.
 * ––––– 2011a. nig Efat''. Melbourne: The author. ISBN 978-1-921775-50-5.
 * ––––– 2011b. dictionary of South Efate''. Melbourne: The author. ISBN 978-1-921775-51-2.
 * ––––– 2012. Mood and Transitivity in South Efate. Oceanic Linguistics. Volume 51, no. 2, 387-401.
 * Thieberger, Nicholas and Chris Ballard. 2008. Daniel Macdonald and the 'compromise literary dialect' in Efate, central Vanuatu. Oceanic Linguistics, Volume 47, no.2: 365-382

Other Central Vanuatu languages


=Southern Vanuatu languages=

Anejom̃

 * Link: Aneityum language
 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/aty





=Other languages - waiting on more detailed information= ""

Akei

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tsr

Ambae, East

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/omb

Ambae, West

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nnd

Amblong

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/alm

Ambrym, North

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mmg

Ambrym, Southeast

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tvk

Aore

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/aor

Apma

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/app

Araki

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/akr

Aulua

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/aul

Axamb

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/ahb

Baetora

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/btr

Baki

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/bki

Bierebo

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/bnk

Bieria

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/brj

Burmbar

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/vrt

Butmas-Tur

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/bnr

Dakaka

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/bpa

Dixon Reef

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/dix

Efate, North

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/llp

Efate, South

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/erk

Emae

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mmw

Eton

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/etn

Fortsenal

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/frt

Futuna-Aniwa

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/fut

Hano

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lml

Ifo

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/iff

Katbol

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tmb

Koro

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/krf

Kwamera

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tnk

Labo

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mwi

Lakon

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lkn

Lamenu

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lmu

Larevat

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lrv

Lehali

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tql

Lelepa

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lpa

Lenakel

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tnl

Letemboi

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nms

Lewo

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lww

Lingarak

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lgk

Litzlitz

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lzl

Lonwolwol

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/crc

Lorediakarkar

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lnn

Löyöp

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/urr

Mae

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mme

Maewo, Central

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mwo

Mafea

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mkv


 * Link to ELAR entry: http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/guerin2007mavea

Maii

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mmm

Malfaxal

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mlx

Malo

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mla

Malua Bay

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mll

Maragus

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mrs

Maskelynes

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/klv

Mele-Fila

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mxe

Merei

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lmb

Merlav

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mrm

Morouas

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mrp

Mosina

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/msn

Mpotovoro

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mvt

Namakura

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nmk

Nambas, Big

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nmb

Narango

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nrg

Nasarian

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nvh

Navut

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nsw

Nokuku

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nkk

Paama

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/pma

Piamatsina

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/ptr

Polonombauk

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/plb

Port Sandwich

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/psw

Port Vato

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/ptv

Repanbitip

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/rpn

Rerep

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/pgk

Roria

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/rga

Sa

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/sax

Sakao

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/sku

Seke

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/ske

Shark Bay

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/ssv

Sie

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/erg

South West Bay

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/sns

Sowa

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/sww

Tambotalo

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tls

Tangoa

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tgp

Tanna, North

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tnn

Tanna, Southwest

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/nwi

Tasmate

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tmt

Tiale

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/mnl

Toga

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/lht

Tolomako

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tlm

Tutuba

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tmi


 * Access to publications on Tutuba, written in Japanese, by Maho Naito

Unua

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/onu

Ura

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/uur

Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/upv

Valpei

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/vlp

Vao

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/vao

Vatrata

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/vlr

Vinmavis

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/vnm

Vunapu

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/vnp

Wailapa

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/wlr

Whitesands

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/tnp

Wusi

 * Link to OLAC entry: http://www.language-archives.org/language/wsi

=Notes=