UID:
almafu_9959239255602883
Format:
1 online resource (540 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-39950-4
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9786613399502
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3-11-023827-6
Series Statement:
Mouton grammar library, 52
Content:
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-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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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Preface --
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Table of contents --
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Abbreviations --
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Chapter 1 Introduction --
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Chapter 2 Phonology --
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Chapter 3 Word classes --
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Chapter 4 Reduplication --
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Chapter 5 Deictics --
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Chapter 6 Nominal morphology --
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Chapter 7 Noun phrase structure --
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Chapter 8 Verbal morphology --
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Chapter 9 Verb phrase structure --
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Chapter 10 Prepositions --
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Chapter 11 Modifiers --
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Chapter 12 Tense, aspect, and mood --
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Chapter 13 Simple clauses --
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Chapter 14 Complex clauses --
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Chapter 15 Serial verbs and related constructions --
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Chapter 16 Negation and questions --
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Chapter 17 Coordination and conjunctions --
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Chapter 18 Discourse organization --
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Appendix 1 Texts --
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Appendix 2 List of grammatical morphemes --
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References --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-023826-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110238273
