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Autore |
Næss Åshild |
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Titolo |
A grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako [[electronic resource] /] / by Åshild Næss and Even Hovdhaugen |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-39950-4 |
9786613399502 |
3-11-023827-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (540 p.) |
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Collana |
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Mouton grammar library, , 0933-7636 ; ; 52 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pileni language |
Pileni language - Grammar |
Polynesian languages |
Solomon Islands Languages |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Phonology -- Chapter 3 Word classes -- Chapter 4 Reduplication -- Chapter 5 Deictics -- Chapter 6 Nominal morphology -- Chapter 7 Noun phrase structure -- Chapter 8 Verbal morphology -- Chapter 9 Verb phrase structure -- Chapter 10 Prepositions -- Chapter 11 Modifiers -- Chapter 12 Tense, aspect, and mood -- Chapter 13 Simple clauses -- Chapter 14 Complex clauses -- Chapter 15 Serial verbs and related constructions -- Chapter 16 Negation and questions -- Chapter 17 Coordination and conjunctions -- Chapter 18 Discourse organization -- Appendix 1 Texts -- Appendix 2 List of grammatical morphemes -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Vaeakau-Taumako, also known as Pileni, is a Polynesian Outlier language spoken in the Reef and Duff Islands in the Solomon Islands' Temotu Province. This is an area of great linguistic diversity and long-standing language contact which has had far-reaching effects on the linguistic situation. Historically, speakers of Vaeakau-Taumako were shipbuilders and navigators who made trade voyages throughout the area, bringing them into constant contact with speakers of the Reefs- |
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Santa Cruz, Utupua and Vanikoro languages. The latter languages are only distantly related to Vaeakau-Taumako, making up an only recently identified first-order subgroup of Oceanic. Polynesian speakers first arrived in the area some 700-1000 years ago from the core Polynesian areas to the east. While today most intra-group communication takes place in Solomon Islands Pijin, traditionally the situation was one of extensive multilingualism, and this has left profound traces in the grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako, which shows a number of structural properties not known from other Polynesian languages. A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako is the most comprehensive grammar of any Polynesian Outlier to date, and the first full-length grammar of any language of Temotu Province. Based on extensive fieldwork, it is structured as a reference grammar dealing with all aspects of language structure, from phonology to discourse organization, and including a selection of glossed texts. It will be of interest to typologists, Oceanic linguists, and researchers interested in language contact. ‹ |
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