An Erromangan (Sye) Grammar

by Terry Crowley

The languages of southern Vanuatu are structurally different from other Oceanic languages. Sye has an unusually complex morphological system and it offers a number of typological surprises for Oceanic linguists. It differs syntactically from many other Oceanic languages of Melanesia in that it does not have widespread verb serialization, though it, along with the other languages of southern Vanuatu, has developed what can be referred to as a system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824819357
• ISBN13: 9780824819354
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"