Arthur Bernard Deacon collection : linguistic notes and folktales.

Arthur Bernard Deacon collection : linguistic notes and folktales.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	1926-1927.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	Austronesian English
Subject:	Anthropological linguistics -- Vanuatu -- Malekula. Folklore -- Vanuatu -- Malekula.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12358380

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Other authors / contributors:	Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, current owner.
Notes:	Collection no.: MS 097. Texts in various Austronesian languages spoken in Vanuatu, including Litzlitz, Nevei'ei, and Nahavaq, with selections in English. Description based on online resource.

Table of Contents:

Telag district, Lambumbu, by A.B. Deacon. Letter dated Oct. 1926, October, 1926
The origin of Benaur village, by Camilla H. Wedgwood
Leus dialect
Wien dialect
Nelal
Nevünvug, Lambumbu, corrected to Lagalag
Sickness medicine, Lambumbu
Vocabulary
Folktale, Seniang
Folktale, Seniang,Lambumbu
Nalawan Vinbamp, ? in text, Seniang
Nimug Gugur ..., [folktale], Lagalag,? Mewurr
A story about Times Malau told by Maseuerau Sinesip
Story of 2 birds, abigone, Nooimb & a small one Newilala
Vocabulary
Nelemew, vocabulary
Mar tiviien mi parasien, vocabulary
Mewun? vocabulary
Netah ..., vocabulary
Adjectives, orierer?
[Cultivation of yams], At tou mbatn ...
[Grammar lists], accusative, direct object
Notes (Mewun)
Mourning phrases
Vu = to go
Causative
[Vocabulary], Lambumbu
Nimur ar igat ...
[Causative prefix], Lagalag
Orierer? Language
Munt tuan ier irin ... [and] Big Nambas family tree
[Vocabulary and] Big Nambas family
Untranslated texts
Why men became black.Seniang dialect
Notes on Tanmwelip
Linguistics
Hambut.