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

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.

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

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).

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Published

January 3, 2026

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Series

Open Text Collections

Online ISSN

3052-9956

Print ISSN

3052-9948
Cite as
Zielenbach, Maria. 2026. Half silver, half gold: Modole folk stories and a first sketch grammar. (Open Text Collections 6). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Zielenbach

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Details about the available publication format: PDF

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-3-96110-548-9

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17511782

Details about the available publication format: Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN-13 (15)

978-3-98554-168-3

Physical Dimensions

180mm x 245mm