Niko Besnier

Tuvaluan

A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Descriptive Grammars
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1029g
• ISBN-13: 9781138993938
• ISBN-10: 113899393X
• Artikelnr.: 50451437

Autorenporträt

Niko Besnier

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables, maps, and figures, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and grammaticality conventions, 0. INTRODUCTION, 1. SYNTAX, 2. MORPHOLOGY, 3. PHONOLOGY, 4. IDEOPHONES AND INTERJECTIONS, 5. LEXICON, References, Index

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List of tables
maps
and figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and grammaticality conventions
0. INTRODUCTION
1. SYNTAX
2. MORPHOLOGY
3. PHONOLOGY
4. IDEOPHONES AND INTERJECTIONS
5. LEXICON
References
Index

Rezensionen

'Tuvaluan is a tour de force, a work of consummate scholarship, most unlikely to be bettered in its essentials.' - H.G.A. Hughes, Languages and Literature

'Tuvaluan is a tour de force, a work of consummate scholarship, most unlikely to be bettered in its essentials.' - H.G.A. Hughes, Languages and Literature