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ItemNatrausuen nig Efat/Stories from South Efate,VanuatuThieberger, N (Ms, 2000-02)A collection of some 65 stories in South Efate language and English, divided into Kastom (Custom), Life stories, and General stories.
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ItemA grammar of south efateThieberger, N (University of Hawaii Press, 2006-01-01)This volume presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of Port Vila. There has been no previous grammatical description of the language, which has been classified as the southernmost member of the North-Central Vanuatu subgroup of languages. In this description I show that South Efate shares features with southern Vanuatu languages, including a lack of serial verb constructions of the kind known for its northern neighbors and the use of an echo-subject marker. The phonology of South Efate reflects an ongoing change in progress, with productive medial vowel deletion and consequent complex heterorganic consonant clusters.