02991nam 2200733 450 991082500380332120200903223051.01-61451-375-910.1515/9781614513759(CKB)2550000001169821(EBL)1139069(SSID)ssj0001081734(PQKBManifestationID)11687143(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001081734(PQKBWorkID)11090724(PQKB)10091107(MiAaPQ)EBC1139069(DE-B1597)210328(OCoLC)1013941475(OCoLC)885389400(DE-B1597)9781614513759(Au-PeEL)EBL1139069(CaPaEBR)ebr10819895(CaONFJC)MIL551806(OCoLC)865329960(PPN)202027287(EXLCZ)99255000000116982120131218h20132013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEarly Tahitian poetics /by David MeyerBoston :De Gruyter Mouton,[2013]©20131 online resource (462 p.)Pacific Linguistics [PL] ;641Pacific linguistics,1448-8310 ;641Description based upon print version of record.1-61451-525-5 1-306-20555-7 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Meter -- Chapter 3. Sound Parallelism -- Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic parallelism -- Chapter 5. Manner of composition -- Chapter 6. Summary and interpretation -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix A. List of grammatical abbreviations -- Appendix B. The pattern detection process -- Appendix C. Automated method for pre- and post-1850 assignment -- References -- IndexTahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and parallelism and speculates on manner of composition. It sheds light on a poetic style unanticipated for Polynesia and remarkable among world poetries.Pacific Linguistics [PL]PoeticsTahitian languageFolk poetryOral Tradition.Poetics.Polynesian Languages and Literature.Poetics.Tahitian language.Folk poetry.800Meyer David1172675MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825003803321Early Tahitian poetics3916410UNINA