Tuvaluan : a Polynesian language of the Central Pacific
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Tuvaluan : a Polynesian language of the Central Pacific
(Croom Helm descriptive grammars / series editors, Bernard Comrie, Norval Smith)
Routledge, 2000
- : hbk
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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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