LEADER 02531nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910809591103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-97471-X 010 $a1-134-97472-8 010 $a1-280-33836-9 010 $a0-203-02712-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203027127 035 $a(CKB)111056485509808 035 $a(EBL)165204 035 $a(OCoLC)560070549 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000263028 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219145 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263028 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10272098 035 $a(PQKB)11772470 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165204 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL165204 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10054686 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL33836 035 $a(OCoLC)51052424 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485509808 100 $a19980924d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTuvaluan $ea Polynesian language of the Central Pacific /$fNiko Besnier 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (689 p.) 225 1 $aDescriptive grammars 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-99393-X 311 $a0-415-02456-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [647]-655) and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables, maps, and figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and grammaticality conventions; INTRODUCTION; SYNTAX; MORPHOLOGY; PHONOLOGY; IDEOPHONES AND INTERJECTIONS; LEXICON 330 $aTuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language. 410 0$aDescriptive grammars. 606 $aTuvaluan language$xGrammar 606 $aPolynesian languages$xGrammar 615 0$aTuvaluan language$xGrammar. 615 0$aPolynesian languages$xGrammar. 676 $a499/.46 700 $aBesnier$b Niko$0174571 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809591103321 996 $aTuvaluan$94065151 997 $aUNINA