Tuvaluan : a Polynesian language of the Central Pacific

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Tuvaluan : a Polynesian language of the Central Pacific

Niko Besnier

(Croom Helm descriptive grammars / series editors, Bernard Comrie, Norval Smith)

Routledge, 2000

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Bibliography: p. [647]-655

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Tuvaluan 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.

Table of Contents

List of tables, maps, and figures, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and grammaticality conventions, 0. INTRODUCTION, 1. SYNTAX, 2. MORPHOLOGY, 3. PHONOLOGY, 4. IDEOPHONES AND INTERJECTIONS, 5. LEXICON, References, Index

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  • NCID
    BA44820402
  • ISBN
    • 0415024560
  • LCCN
    98043190
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxvi, 662 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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