02531nam 2200649Ia 450 991080959110332120200520144314.01-134-97471-X1-134-97472-81-280-33836-90-203-02712-410.4324/9780203027127 (CKB)111056485509808(EBL)165204(OCoLC)560070549(SSID)ssj0000263028(PQKBManifestationID)11219145(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263028(PQKBWorkID)10272098(PQKB)11772470(MiAaPQ)EBC165204(Au-PeEL)EBL165204(CaPaEBR)ebr10054686(CaONFJC)MIL33836(OCoLC)51052424(EXLCZ)9911105648550980819980924d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTuvaluan a Polynesian language of the Central Pacific /Niko Besnier1st ed.London ;New York Routledge20001 online resource (689 p.)Descriptive grammarsDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-99393-X 0-415-02456-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages [647]-655) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables, maps, and figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and grammaticality conventions; INTRODUCTION; SYNTAX; MORPHOLOGY; PHONOLOGY; IDEOPHONES AND INTERJECTIONS; LEXICONTuvaluan 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.Descriptive grammars.Tuvaluan languageGrammarPolynesian languagesGrammarTuvaluan languageGrammar.Polynesian languagesGrammar.499/.46Besnier Niko174571MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809591103321Tuvaluan4065151UNINA