Author: Ernest G. RossiterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tahitian language
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A New Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect of the Polynesian Language, Together with Brief Reading Exercises
Author: Ernest G. RossiterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tahitian language
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A New Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect of the Polynesian Language
Author: Conversational Tahitian
Author: Darrell T. TryonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520016002
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : mi
Pages : 200
Book Description
A Grammar of Rapa Nui
Author: Paulus KievietPublisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3946234755
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.
English-Tahitian, Tahitian-English Dictionary
Author: Sven WahlroosPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824834739
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the most useful and comprehensive English-Tahitian, Tahitian-English dictionary available. The author, who was a devoted student of Tahitian for more than three decades, provides an extensive introduction to the language with detailed notes on grammar, usage, and pronunciation. This reprint edition has been re-sized to 6 inches x 9.25 inches, making it a convenient and handier alternative to larger-sized dictionaries.
A Tahitian and English dictionary, with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language, and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect
Author: Jerbert John DaviesPublisher: Jerbert John Davies
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A Tahitian and English dictionary, with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language, and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect
A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language
Author: J.F. StimsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401763437
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia
Author: James Richardson LoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia
Author: List of Grammars, Dictionaries, Etc
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description