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- ↑ Ughele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Frostad, Benedicte Haraldstad (2012). A grammar of Ughele : an Oceanic language of Solomon Islands. Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap. Utrecht, The Netherlands. pp. 62, 88, 102, 282. ISBN 978-94-6093-097-3. OCLC 850717662.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Dryer, Matthew S. (2013). "World Atlas of Language Structures Online". The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
- ↑ Dryer, Matthew S. (2013). "Order of Demonstrative and Noun". The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
- ↑ The Oceanic languages. John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, Terry Crowley. Richmond [England]: Curzon. 2002. p. 38. ISBN 0-7007-1128-7. OCLC 48929366.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Dryer, Matthew S. (2013). "Polar Questions". The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
- ↑ Lambrecht, Knud (1994). "Information Structure and Sentence Form". Journal of Linguistics. 32: xvi-388 – via Cambridge University Press Journals Digital Archives.
- ↑ Robert D. Van Valin Jr., Randy J. LaPolla (2004). "Syntax: Structure, meaning and function". Journal of Linguistics. 37: 206.
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- "Ughele". Ethnologue (18th ed.). Dallas: SIL International. 2015.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ughele". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.