4 options
Tuvaluan : a Polynesian language of the Central Pacific / Niko Besnier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Besnier, Niko.
- Series:
- Descriptive grammars.
- Descriptive grammars
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tuvaluan language--Grammar.
- Tuvaluan language.
- Polynesian languages--Grammar.
- Polynesian languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (689 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables, maps, and figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and grammaticality conventions; INTRODUCTION; SYNTAX; MORPHOLOGY; PHONOLOGY; IDEOPHONES AND INTERJECTIONS; LEXICON
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [647]-655) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-97471-X
- 1-134-97472-8
- 1-280-33836-9
- 0-203-02712-4
- 9780203027127
- OCLC:
- 560070549
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.