A Grammar of Akabea

by Bernard Comrie and Raoul Zamponi

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198855796
• ISBN13: 9780198855798
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 9.8"