Half silver, half gold: Modole folk stories and a first sketch grammar

Maria Zielenbach

Half silver, half gold: Modole folk stories and a first sketch grammar

Authors

Maria Zielenbach

Synopsis

This collection contains ten folk stories in Modole, a Papuan language of the North Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. They were first published in 1916 by Dutch missionary G.J. Ellen and appear here re-edited, translated into English and with interlinear glossings.

In addition, the book offers the first grammatical description of Modole, as well as information on the Modole people and their culture and environment.

Author Biography

Maria Zielenbach

Maria Zielenbach is a PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam. Her project focuses on the diachrony of the Papuan North
Halmahera languages of eastern Indonesia. Her further research
interests include language typology, language contact, and Semitic
languages (especially Aramaic).