A Grammar of Lenakel

Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1978. — 135 p. — ISBN 085883166X.The Lenakel language is spoken by around 3000 people in the central west of the island of Tanna, the most heavily populated island in the Southern District of Vanuatu. It is an Austronesian language, whose closest relatives are the other four languages of Tanna and the languages of the neighbouring islands of Erromanga and Aneityum.
It is hoped that this grammar of Lenakel may be read and understood by both linguists and laymen. I have thus attempted to explain clearly and simply the workings of Lenakel grammar, and have eschewed the use of unnecessarily difficult terminology where possible. This grammar is thus essentially a descriptive account of the Lenakel language, although I have used the footnotes to make points of an explanatory nature when I have felt that these would be of interest to professional linguists.