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Author : Viktor Krupa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110899280
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Polynesian Languages written by Viktor Krupa and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Polynesian Languages".
Author : Alexander Adelaar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192534262
Total Pages : 1089 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia written by Alexander Adelaar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the historical relations, typological diversity, and varied sociolinguistic issues that characterize this group of languages, including current debates in their prehistories and descriptive priorities for future study. The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals with historical linguistics, including discussion of human genetics, archaeology, and cultural history. Chapters in Part II explore language contact between Malayo-Polynesian and unrelated languages, as well as sociolinguistic issues such as multilingualism, language policy, and language endangerment. Part III provides detailed overviews of the different groupings of Malayo-Polynesian languages, while Part IV offers in-depth studies of important typological features across the whole linguistic area. The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in Austronesian languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
Author : Viktor Krupa
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Polynesian Languages written by Viktor Krupa and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Herbert Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Polynesian Languages in Melanesia written by Sidney Herbert Ray and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey C. Marck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 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 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paulus Kieviet
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234755
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Rapa Nui written by Paulus Kieviet and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Niko Besnier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134974728
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Tuvaluan written by Niko Besnier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nors S. Josephson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek Linguistic Elements in the Polynesian Languages written by Nors S. Josephson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauren Clemens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192604856
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces written by Lauren Clemens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520016002
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Conversational Tahitian written by Darrell T. Tryon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abraham Fornander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Account of the Polynesian Race: Comparative vocabulary of the Polynesian and Indo-European languages. With a preface by Prof. W. D. Alexander. 1885 written by Abraham Fornander and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Viktor Krupa
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Polynesian Languages written by Viktor Krupa and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.F. Stimson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401763437
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language written by J.F. Stimson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Herbert Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Polynesian Languages in Melanesia written by Sidney Herbert Ray and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Henry Codrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Melanesian Languages written by Robert Henry Codrington and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert J. Schütz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824869826
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Language written by Albert J. Schütz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook’s naturalist and philologist William Anderson, ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia (the inspiration for the Hawaiian Mission), the American lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players. The account begins in prehistory, placing the probable origins of the ancestor of Polynesian languages in mainland Asia. An evolving family tree reflects the linguistic changes that took place as these people moved east. The current versions are examined from a Hawaiian-centered point of view, comparing the sound system of the language with those of its major relatives in the Polynesian triangle. More recent historical topics begin with the first written samples of a Polynesian language in 1616, which led to the birth of the idea of a widespread language family. The next topic is how the Hawaiian alphabet was developed. The first efforts suffered from having too many letters, a problem that was solved in 1826 through brilliant reasoning by its framers and their Hawaiian consultants. The opposite problem was that the alphabet didn’t have enough letters: analysts either couldn’t hear or misinterpreted the glottal stop and long vowels. The end product of the development of the alphabet—literacy—is more complicated than some statistics would have us believe. As for its success or failure, both points of view, from contemporary observers, are presented. Still, it cannot be denied that literacy had a tremendous and lasting effect on Hawaiian culture. The last part of the book concentrates on the most-used Hawaiian reference works—dictionaries. It describes current projects that combine print and manuscript collections on a searchable website. These projects can include the growing body of manuscript and print material that is being made available through recent and ongoing research. As for the future, a proposed monolingual dictionary would allow users to avoid an English bridge to understanding, and move directly to a definition that includes Hawaiian cultural features and a Hawaiian worldview.
Author : Lauren Clemens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198860838
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Polynesian Syntax and Its Interfaces written by Lauren Clemens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family. Chapters offer in-depth analyses of a range of theoretical issues of particular interest for comparative syntactic research, such as ergativity and case systems, negation, and the left periphery.
