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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Vanuatu"”.
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A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu)
A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu) offers a description of the endangered and previously undocumented Ahamb language spoken by around 950 people. This grammatical description is one of the main outcomes of the Ahamb Language Documentation Project, which involved over 8 months of data …
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A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu) is a synchronic account of the endangered Neverver language spoken by the Mindu and Sakhan peoples. The description is one outcome of a larger project to document the Neverver language, and it is based on a large and varied corpus of …
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Independens long Vanuatu: the churches and politics in a Melanesian nation
… between the churches and politics in Vanuatu, focusing in particular on the role of the Christian churches in the independence movement of the 1970s. I also look at the political involvement of the churches in the two years immediately following national independence. The dissertation …
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Responding to climate change to sustain community-managed water services in Vanuatu
… services in a developing country setting using Vanuatu as a country of reference. To conduct this research, I followed tenets of transdisciplinarity and utilised a case study methodology in two rural sites in Vanuatu that included 70 participants from rural communities and local and central …
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Petrological insights into pre- and syn-eruptive degassing at Ambrym volcano, Vanuatu
Abstract This study is a petrological investigation of magmatic conditions and degassing processes at Ambrym volcano, a basaltic island arc volcano recently identified as a prodigious emitter of volcanic gases. Typical activity at this volcano entails heavy degassing from quasipermanent lava lakes, …
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Seasons of Change: Ni-Vanuatu and the Recognised Seasonal Employer’s (RSE) Scheme
… the subjectivities that are constructed for Ni-Vanuatu working in the RSE. This analysis calls attention to the fluid social relations of RSE participants whose subjectivities are predominantly constituted by "migration narratives" derived from the social context in New Zealand and Vanuatu. The …
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The materiality of the kitchen house: building, food and history on Mere Lava, northern Vanuatu
Houses and food in Vanuatu are prominent artefacts that materialise people's links to the land and social relationships. Nowadays on Mere Lava, a striking emphasis is put on the building or re-building of kitchen houses, n-ean̄ kuk, as architectural elements central to households. Drawing upon …
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Variation in Raga - a quantitative and qualitative study of the language of North Pentecost, Vanuatu.
… island of Pentecost, in linguistically diverse Vanuatu. It is primarily a field study, firmly grounded in the survey of social and linguistic data collected in 2015-2017 in north Pentecost, from 58 men and women representing three generations of speakers. This thesis examines variables in three …
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Variation in Raga - a quantitative and qualitative study of the language of North Pentecost, Vanuatu.
… island of Pentecost, in linguistically diverse Vanuatu. It is primarily a field study, firmly grounded in the survey of social and linguistic data collected in 2015-2017 in north Pentecost, from 58 men and women representing three generations of speakers. This thesis examines variables in three …
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Drivers of Variation in the Eruptive and Magmatic Processes of a Persistently Active Volcano, Yasur, Vanuatu
… was conducted at Mt Yasur, on Tanna Island, Vanuatu. It comprised an 11-week, multi-component monitoring deployment that utilized seismometers, gas spectrometry, thermal-IR imagery and visual observations. From this, explosion parameters were quantified and related to global analogues. …
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“Buoyancy – bifo and afta” : a climate change vulnerability / resilience framework for tourism – the case study of Vanuatu dive tourism
… Dive tourism represents a significant player in Vanuatu's economy and the country's tourism sector is highly vulnerable to climate change. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of research on climate change adaptation for tourism in the Pacific, let alone in Vanuatu. In addressing the current research …
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Serial verb constructions and echo-reference constructions in the languages of Northwest Malekula: V'ënen Taut, Tape, and Tirax
… of serial verb constructions in six Central Vanuatu languages and finds that most languages display two kinds of serial verb constructions, nuclear and core, which are identified by grammatical marking. The survey also identifies coverbial constructions and object incorporation as two further …
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The Evolution of Written Bislama
… decreolisation of Bislama, the creole of Vanuatu. It focuses on the evolution of the written language and consists in the study of a corpus of documents in Bislama in various genres and over a period of 40 years. The first three chapters of this thesis focus on the background, setting …
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