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Author : D. Ross Clark
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Mele Language (atara Imere), Vanuatu written by D. Ross Clark and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 1998 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Florey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199544549
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Endangered Languages of Austronesia written by Margaret Florey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian language family. The contributions bring together Indigenous language activists and academic researchers with a long-standing commitment to language documentation.
Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824861256
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of South Efate written by Nicholas Thieberger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of PortVila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world’s smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software (Audiamus) developed in the course of the research. An included DVD provides a dictionary and finderlist, a set of interlinearized example texts and elicited sentences, and playable media versions of most example sentences and of the example texts.
Author : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111338002
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Postcolonial Semantics written by Carsten Levisen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110271974
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact written by Björn Wiemer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The book is a major contribution to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between grammaticalization and language contact on a broad empirical basis.
Author : Dmitri M. Bondarenko
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030514374
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Social Institutions written by Dmitri M. Bondarenko and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is defined as the process of structural change. Within this framework the society, or culture, is seen as a system composed of a vast number of social institutions that are constantly interacting and changing. As a result, the structure of society as a whole is also evolving and changing. The authors posit that the combination of evolving social institutions explains the non-linear character of social evolution and that every society develops along its own pathway and pace. Within this framework, society should be seen as the result of the compound effect of the interactions of social institutions specific to it. Further, the transformation of social institutions and relations between them is taking place not only within individual societies but also globally, as institutions may be trans-societal, and even institutions that operate in one society can arise as a reaction to trans-societal trends and demands. The book argues that it may be more productive to look at institutions even within a given society as being parts of trans-societal systems of institutions since, despite their interconnectedness, societies still have boundaries, which their members usually know and respect. Accordingly, the book is a must-read for researchers and scholars in various disciplines who are interested in a better understanding of the origins, history, successes and failures of social institutions.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521788793
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. They illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland - Hawaiki - some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green's book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of long-term history.
Author : Ryan Tucker Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108334067
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean: Volume 1, The Pacific Ocean to 1800 written by Ryan Tucker Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a wide-ranging survey of Pacific history to 1800. It focuses on varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history, as well as tracing the early exploration and colonization of the Pacific, the evolution of Indigenous maritime cultures after colonization, and the disruptive arrival of Europeans. Bringing together a diversity of subjects and viewpoints, this volume introduces a broad variety of topics, engaging fully with emerging environmental and political conflicts over Pacific Ocean spaces. These essays emphasize the impact of the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific to the present day.
Author : Catriona Malau
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760464619
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu written by Catriona Malau and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a trilingual dictionary of Vurës, with meanings provided in both English and Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu. Vurës is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu. The dictionary is a companion volume to A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu (Malau 2016). There is no established tradition of writing in Vurës and most speakers are not literate in their own language. This dictionary is intended to have a dual purpose: to support the learning of literacy skills in the Vurës community, and as a reference work for linguists. There are four parts to the dictionary. The main part is the most comprehensive and provides the English and Bislama definitions of Vurës words, as well as example sentences for many of the entries, additional encyclopaedic information, scientific names for identified species, lexical relations, and etymological information for some entries. The dictionary contains approximately 3,500 headwords and has a strong emphasis on flora and fauna with close to a third of the entries belonging to these semantic domains. The dictionary has benefited from collaboration with a marine biologist and botanists, who have provided scientific identifications for named species. The main dictionary is followed by English–Vurës and Bislama–Vurës finderlists. The final part of the dictionary is a thesaurus, in which Vurës words are grouped according to semantic categories. The thesaurus has been included primarily so that it can be used to support teaching of literacy skills and cultural knowledge within the community.
Author : D. Ross Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book *Leo Tuai written by D. Ross Clark and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valérie Guérin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837061
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Mavea written by Valérie Guérin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Mavea, with an emphasis on the latter. Of particular interest are examples of individual speaker variation presented throughout the grammar; the presence of three linguo-labials (still used today by a single speaker) that were unexpectedly found before the rounded vowel /o/; and a chapter on numerals and the counting system, which have long been replaced by Bislama’s but are remembered by a handful of speakers. Most of the grammatical descriptions derive from a corpus of texts of various genres (conversations, traditional stories, personal histories, etc.) gathered during the author’s fieldwork, conducted for eleven months between 2005 and 2007.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Anthropologica written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of meetings of the institute.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Literatur-overzicht" issued with v. 95.
Author : Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu) written by Miriam Meyerhoff and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey C. Marck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Topics in Polynesian Language and Culture History written by Jeffrey C. Marck and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dominic Lynch
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Anejõm Dictionary written by John Dominic Lynch and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Erromangan (Sye) Dictionary written by Terry Crowley and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
