32.3789, Books: A Grammar of Akajeru: Zamponi, Comrie

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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 07:55:54
From: Alison Fox [uclpresspublishing at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: A Grammar of Akajeru: Zamponi, Comrie

 


Title: A Grammar of Akajeru 
Subtitle: Fragments of a traditional North Andamanese dialect 
Series Title: Grammars of World and Minority Languages  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: UCL Press
	   http://www.uclpress.co.uk
	

Book URL: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/178742?utm_source=Linglist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=620J&utm_id=Linglist 


Author: Raoul Zamponi
Author: Bernard Comrie

Hardback: ISBN:  9781800080959 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 40
Online resource: ISBN:  9781800080935 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 0 Comment: Open access PDF- free to download!
Paperback: ISBN:  9781800080942 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 20


Abstract:

"A Grammar of Akajeru" describes aspects of the grammatical system and lexicon
of Akajeru, a traditional dialect of the North Andamanese language, as it was
reportedly used around the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based
primarily on the fragments of this variety provided by the British
anthropologist Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown and scattered among the published
results of his anthropological research carried out on the islands between
1906 and 1908. These are supplemented by published lists of 46 anatomical
terms and 28 toponyms collected by Edward Horace Man, Officer in Charge of the
Andamanese 1875–79.

The book provides a linguistic analysis of all the extant Akajeru material,
plus items identified by Radcliffe-Brown as ‘North Andaman’ without further
specification, his few records of Akabo and Akakhora and Man’s few records of
Akakhora, which together constitute all the documentation of these other
traditional North Andamanese dialects. It includes a grammatical sketch of
Akajeru, a list of all the words that were recorded, together with an
English-Akajeru finder list, and a comparison between Akajeru and Present-day
Andamanese, an Akajeru-based variety with elements from all the other
traditional dialects of North Andamanese that is today remembered by only
three people.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Aka-Bo (akm)
                     Aka-Jeru (akj)
                     Aka-Kora (ack)


Written In: English  (eng)

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