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Author : Viktor Krupa
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000534145
Author : Viktor Krupa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110899283
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Author : Niko Besnier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134974719
Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
Author : Jeffrey C. Marck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : OSU:32435065837296
Author : Nors S. Josephson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Greek language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040633732
Author : Sidney Herbert Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Melanesian languages
ISBN : OCLC:222521609
Author : George William Grace
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1391653149
Excerpt from The Position of the Polynesian Languages Within the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Language Family The tri-institutional Pacific Program supported my research for nearly four years, including more than a year of field work in Melanesia. I am extremely grateful for that support, without which this study would have been impossible. Under this Program there was a linguistic advisory committee, organized and directed by Dr. Murdock. Isidore Dyen, Floyd Lounsbury, Joseph H. Greenberg, William C. Sturtevant, Harold C. Conklin, and William Davenport participated. The committee made a material contribution to the planning of my work in addi tion to the value of the general exchange of ideas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George William Grace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:258177625
Author : Lauren Clemens,Diane Massam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192604859
This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Māori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan. Languages in this family present multiple characteristics of particular interest for comparative syntactic research, and in recent years, data from Polynesian languages has also contributed to advances in the fields of prosody and semantics, as well as to the study of parametric variation. The chapters in this volume offer in-depth analyses of a range of theoretical issues at the syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody interfaces, both within individual languages and from a comparative Polynesian perspective. They examine key topics including: word order variation, ergativity and case systems, causativization, negation, raising, modality and superlatives, and the left periphery of both the sentential and nominal domains. The findings not only shed light on the theoretical typology of Polynesian languages, but also have implications for linguistic theory as a whole.
Author : George William Grace
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013420012
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Paulus Kieviet
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234753
This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.
Author : George W. Grace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632057561
Author : Sidney Herbert Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : OCLC:16333833
Author : Robert Langdon,Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015013412989
Author : Anne Salmond
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110810363