37.1293, Books: A Grammar and Dictionary of Rengao: Gregerson and Gregerson; Sidwell (ed.) (2026)

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Date: 31-Mar-2026
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: A Grammar and Dictionary of Rengao: Gregerson and Gregerson; Sidwell (ed.) (2026)


Title: A Grammar and Dictionary of Rengao
Subtitle: An Austroasiatic Language of the Vietnam Central Highlands
Series Title: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages -
Mainland and Insular South East Asia
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/73399

Author(s): Kenneth Gregerson and Marilyn Gregerson
Editor(s): Paul Sidwell

ISBN hardback: 978-90-04-75244-3
ISBN e-book: 978-90-04-75517-8
DOI: 10.1163/9789004755178

Abstract:

This volume brings together Gregerson’s fieldwork in Vietnam’s Kontum
Province (1968–1974), conducted in collaboration with Rengao speakers
Paul Hyum and Andre Ir. The outcome is a sketch grammar, a dictionary
of more than 6,000 entries, and a rich collection of texts. Rengao, a
North Bahnaric language within the Austroasiatic phylum, stands out
for its typologically rare tense–lax phonological contrast—still of
uncertain origin—and for its remarkably vivid “expressive” lexicon of
onomatopoeic, ideophonic, and phonaesthemic forms, all central to the
community’s vibrant oral traditions. The work also offers substantial
insights into processes of grammaticalization, borrowing, and
etymology.
Readership: This volume will be of particular interest to linguists
and students of linguistics working in typology and Southeast Asian
languages—both internationally and within Vietnam—as well as to Bible
translators and students of translation engaged with the languages of
the region.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Rengao (ren)

Language Family(ies): North Bahnaric

Written In: English (eng)



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