Niue Language Dictionary

Author : Niue,University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dept. of Linguistics
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824819330

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Niue Language Dictionary by Niue,University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dept. of Linguistics Pdf

Tohi Vagahau Niue is a significant new dictionary detailing the Polynesian language of Niue, and will benefit Niuean studies for years to come. While its main aim is to be a repository for native speakers, it will also serve a wider linguistic audience, including comparativists and theorists in lexicography. Detailed user notes introduce the reader to the basic challenges in Niuean lexicography and grammar. With some 10,000 Niuean word entries, the present dictionary is a significant expansion on an earlier work. The Niuean contributors took great care to present their language as a living entity while preserving its valuable past, but they are also aware of its uncertain future. Language revival is essential to preserve a linguistic Pacific jewel, and as such the new dictionary will lend status to Niuean language studies as well as be an invaluable help in using Niuean confidently in everyday life.

Author : J. M. McEwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Niue (Langue)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034820865

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Niue Dictionary by J. M. McEwen Pdf

Author : Aiao Kaulima,Clive H. Beaumont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Niuean language
ISBN : UOM:39015052692574

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Learning Niuean by Aiao Kaulima,Clive H. Beaumont Pdf

One of the few print resources on learning the Niuean language. Follows on from A First Book for Learning Niuean - designed for adult or secondary school learners. Those of intermediate school level may also be able to use it. Contains units 11-14 of the combined edition. It also has a summary of the grammar of the first book. The vocabulary lists cover both books.

Author : Robert D. Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810867727

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Historical Dictionary of Polynesia by Robert D. Craig Pdf

The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast. Thousands of islands are scattered throughout this area, most of which are currently included in one of the modern island states of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Polynesia greatly expands on the previous editions through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Polynesian history from the earliest times to the present. Appendixes of the major islands and atolls within Polynesia, the rulers and administrators of the 13 major island states, and basic demographic information of those states are also included.

Author : Diane Massam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198793557

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Niuean by Diane Massam Pdf

This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing ground for this claim: it displays verb-subject-object word order, in which the subject interrupts the predicate, and has an ergative case system, in which subjects are not clearly distinguished from objects in their marking for grammatical case. Diane Massam uses the framework of generative grammar to carry out a detailed analysis of the internal structure of Niuean predicates and arguments, as well as the relations between them, touching on many other topics including the nature of displacement, word formation, determiners, and thematic roles. The proposal is that Niuean complex predicates are formed via successive inversion, prior to the merge of all arguments (high argument merge), and that the predicate undergoes fronting to initial position across the arguments, with the same structure found also in nominal clauses. The conclusion is that Niuean does not have a subject in the usual sense, and this is related to the fact that the language has isolating morphology, lacking all tense and agreement inflection and nominative case. Instead, the language exhibits low absolutive predication, applicative ergative agents, and predicate fronting in lieu of subject extraction. The book extends our understanding of cross-linguistic sentence structure and grammatical case, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, typology, and theoretical linguistics.

Author : Daniël Van Olmen,Simone Heinold
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265937

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Imperatives and Directive Strategies by Daniël Van Olmen,Simone Heinold Pdf

Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are the semantics of the imperative?”, “how is it used (in the world’s languages)?” and “which factors determine the choice between imperatives and other directive strategies?”. This volume takes a broadly functional-typological perspective and contributes to the literature in several respects. It presents new data from a variety of languages, some of which have not been studied in depth before. It exemplifies the benefits of traditional methodologies as well as the potential of more innovative ones. In addition, the volume sheds new light on the imperative as a typological notion, its meaning and uses and its interaction with other grammatical categories. It also offers new insights into the relation between different directive strategies within and across languages and into the (dis)similarities between equivalent directive strategies in a language family.

Author : J. M. McEwen,澄·遠藤
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4924981818

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Niue dictionary by J. M. McEwen,澄·遠藤 Pdf

Author : John Lynch,Malcolm Ross,Terry Crowley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780700711284

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The Oceanic Languages by John Lynch,Malcolm Ross,Terry Crowley Pdf

The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.

Author : Jeff Siegel,John Lynch,Diana Eades
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292940

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Language Description, History and Development by Jeff Siegel,John Lynch,Diana Eades Pdf

This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive classifiers, diphthongs, accent patterns, modals in Australian English and directional terms in atoll-based languages. Part II, Historical Linguistics and Linguistic History, ranges from the reconstruction of Australian languages, to reflexes of Proto-Oceanic, to the lexicon of early Melanesian Pidgin. Part III, Language Development and Linguistic Applications, comprises studies of lexicography, language in education, and language endangerment and language revival, spanning the Pacific from South Australia and New Zealand to Melanesia and on to Colombia. The volume will whet the appetite of anyone interested in the latest linguistic research in this richly multilingual part of the globe.

Author : Alana Johns,Diane Massam,Juvenal Ndayiragije
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 140204187X

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Ergativity by Alana Johns,Diane Massam,Juvenal Ndayiragije Pdf

The overarching theme of this volume is the formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. The book contains cutting-edge theoretical papers by top authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and bring new data to light. It contains articles that apply the most recent theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and then explore the issues that emerge. Languages investigated in the text include Basque, Georgian, and Hindi.

Author : Claire Moyse-Faurie,Joachim Sabel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110259919

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Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax by Claire Moyse-Faurie,Joachim Sabel Pdf

This monograph is a collection of selected papers on Oceanic languages. For the first time, aspects of the morphology and syntax of Oceanic languages such as the encoding of sentence types, the structure of the noun phrase, noun incorporation, constituent order, and ergative vs. accusative alignment are discussed from a comparative point of view, thus drawing attention to genetic, areal and language-specific features. The individual papers are based on the field work of the authors on lesser-described and endangered languages and are basically descriptive studies. At the same time they also explore the theoretical implications of the data presented and analyzed, as well as the historical development of certain morpho-syntactic phenomena, without basing these explorations on a single theoretical framework. The book provides new insights into the morphosyntactic structures of Oceanic languages and is of interest primarily for linguists working on Austronesian, in particular Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian languages, but also for typologists and linguists working on language change.

Author : Jila Ghomeshi,Ileana Paul,Martina Wiltschko
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288950

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Determiners by Jila Ghomeshi,Ileana Paul,Martina Wiltschko Pdf

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are variable? In recent theorizing, much of language variation is argued to stem from differences in the properties of features associated with functional heads. As such, this volume can be viewed as a case study of one such category: the determiner (D). The contributions all investigate the status of D as a language universal by examining the language-specific syntactic and semantic properties associated with this category. This volume will appeal to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, as well as to those who have more a specific interest in determiners and noun phrases.

Author : Stanley J. Kays
Publisher : Springer
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789086867202

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Cultivated vegetables of the world: a multilingual onomasticon by Stanley J. Kays Pdf

Vegetables make up a major portion of the diet of humans and are critical for good health. With the world population predicted to reach 9 billion people by 2050, they will play an increasingly important role in food availability. The purpose of this book is to facilitate accuracy in communication among individuals working in agriculture and a better understand of the extent and diversity of vegetable production and utilization worldwide. Increasing global economic interdependence and trade in agricultural products makes precise communication among individuals utilizing different languages essential. There is currently a wide range of vegetables shipped around the world as seasonal, economic and other forces are shifting markets from exclusively local toward global. The text provides up-to-date scientific names, synonyms, and common names for the commercially cultivated vegetable crops grown worldwide (404 crops), in addition to information on the plant parts utilized and their method of preparation. Common names from 370 languages are presented along with information on each of the languages. The text represents an essential reference source with the information presented in a concise and readily accessible format. It allows indentifying a crop from the common name in a diverse cross-section of languages and is therefore of use to university and government researchers, libraries worldwide, agricultural organizations, agricultural scientists, embassies, international travelers, vegetable growers, shippers, packers, produce buyers, grocery store managers, gourmet restaurants, chefs, and gardeners.

Author : Andrew Carnie,Eithne Guilfoyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198030294

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The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages by Andrew Carnie,Eithne Guilfoyle Pdf

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

Author : Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona,Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Eithne Guilfoyle Head of Humanities, Design and Technology
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195344011

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The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages by Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona,Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Eithne Guilfoyle Head of Humanities, Design and Technology Pdf

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.