Australian Catholic University, 1988. — 495 p. Niuafo'ou shares with its neighbouring Polynesian languages Tongan and 'Uvean (Bataillon 1932) the same inventory of segmental phonemes which consists of five vowels and twelve consonants. Phonetic long vowels and diphthongs occur, but long vowels are analysed either as sequences of two identical vowels (I.2.2. ( C-1)) or as...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 253 p. — (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language). — ISBN: 0-521-48087-6; ISBN: 0-521-48539-8. In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society, using a contemporary perspective that emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded...
Routledge, 2000. — 689 p. — ISBN: 0-203-17361-9. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, a language spoken in Polynesia. While the language shares features commonly found amongst Polynesian languages, it exhibits a number of divergent features of interest to scholars of Pacific languages, comparative linguistics, language typology, and...
Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. — 682 p. — (Trends in Linguistics). Marquesan, an endangered Polynesian language, is remarkable because its speakers use a spatial orientation system based on local landmarks in the environment to describe spatial relations even in micro-level space. This volume is an in-depth empirical analysis of the verbal forms and means of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 2558 p. The vast territory of French Polynesia is home to seven distinct languages – Tahitian, Austral, Ra'ivavae, Rapa, Mangarevan, Pa'umotu and Marquesan – which in turn show internal variation. The fruit of ten years of joint work by two linguists of French CNRS, Jean-Michel Charpentier and Alexandre François, the Linguistic Atlas of French...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 2558 p. The vast territory of French Polynesia is home to seven distinct languages – Tahitian, Austral, Ra'ivavae, Rapa, Mangarevan, Pa'umotu and Marquesan – which in turn show internal variation. The fruit of ten years of joint work by two linguists of French CNRS, Jean-Michel Charpentier and Alexandre François, the Linguistic Atlas of French...
Summary in Danish. København: Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1975. — 243 p. — (Folia Geographica Danica 13 [Language and Culture of Rennel and Bellona Islands 5]). — ISBN: 87-421-0508-0. Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 368 p. - The first volume exploring theoretical approaches to Polynesian languages - Discusses key issues including case systems, word order variation, and isolating morphology - Shows how data from Polynesian languages contributes to comparative syntactic research This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its...
University of California Press, 1984. — 711 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 102). Futuna is an island in the Tafea province of Vanuatu. It is the easternmost island in the country. It was formed by the uplift of an underwater volcano, which last erupted in the Pleistocene, at least 11,000 years ago. It reaches a height of 666 m. It is sometimes called...
Routledge, 2010. — 234 p. — Series: Descriptive Grammars Rapanui, the language of Easter Island, is in danger of extinction. A Polynesian language, closely related to Maori, it is spoken by less than 2000 people. This description, based on recordings made in the 1980s and on information provided by the islanders, represents Veronica De Feu's determination to recored the...
Special Editor Albert Schütz. — Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. — xx + 305 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication 22). — ISBN: 0-8248-1205-0. Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a passing British ship,...
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press / Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum, 1965. — x + 419 p. — (Language and Culture of Rennell and Bellona Islands 1). Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a passing British ship, the...
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., 1950. — 77 p. Грэйс Дж. У. Место полинезийских языков в составе австронезийской (малайско-полинезийской) языковой семьи (на англ.яз.). Historical Background. The Methodology. Phonology. Grammar. Vocabulary. Conclusions. Glottochronology. Chart of Sound Correspondences. Map.
Lincom Europa, 1996. — 48 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 58). Tokelau comprises three atolls, Atafu, Nukunono and Fakaofo, situated 750 miles northwest of Samoa. Tokelauan belongs to the Polynesian sub-group of Austronesian. It is spoken by about approximately 5000 people, of whom about 1600 live in the atolls, about 3000 in New Zealand, and several hundred elsewhere...
Publisher: Pasifika Press Date: 1995 Pages: 151 + cover and back matter ISBN: 0908597142 Source languages: English, Cook Islands Maori A language coursebook designed for both personal and classroom use and suitable for a wide range of ages and backgrounds, from secondary level to adult. Includes 60 sets of exercises, songs and word lists.
Publisher: Pasifika Press
Date: 1995
Format / Quality: MP3 / 160kkps
ISBN: 0908597142
Source languages: English, Cook Islands Maori
A language coursebook designed for both personal and classroom use and suitable for a wide range of ages and backgrounds, from secondary level to adult. Includes 60 sets of exercises, songs and word lists.
Грамматика языка тувалу. Сува, 1945.
This Tuvalu/Ellice Islands grammar was first published in 1945. It has been scanned and now posted on this web site as part of a long-term experiment to learn more about how best to present linguistic and ethnographic data on the internet. It may be possible to add sound at a later date to allow users to hear how the language is pronounced....
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2017. — xix, 639 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 12). — ISBN 978-3-946234-75-3. 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...
University of Hawaii, 1969. — 185 p. This thesis deals with the phonology of Tuamotuan. Three styles of speech are distinguished in this thesis, namely slow deliberate speech, fast deliberate speech and natural speech.
The Australian National University, 1970. — 144 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 17). This monograph deals with the phonology of Tuamotuan. The descriptive framework used here is that of Dr. Biggs as presented in Biggs (1961), Carrol (1965), Newbrand (1951), and Trager-Smith (1957) have also been consulted occasionally. Three styles of speech are distinguished in this study,...
Illustrated by Sengeika Tepuke, Bellona. — Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum, 1975. — xvii + 223 p. — (Language and Culture of Rennel and Bellona Islands 4). — ISBN: 87-480-0076-0. Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2000. — xxii + 302 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 504). This book is the result of an extended investigation of the relation between languages and the human communities from which words draw their vitality. At its heart is the search for an even better understanding of processes of language change and...
Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum, 1981. — 78 p. — ISBN: 87-480-0339-15. Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a passing British ship, the Bellona. Rennell Island was named after Lord Rennell, president of the Royal...
Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum, 1966. — xii + 135 p. — (Language and Culture of Rennel and Bellona Islands 2.1). Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a passing British ship, the Bellona. Rennell Island was named after...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 132 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 533). The Va Pou dialect of the Marquesan language is spoken on the island of Va Pou in Te Henua Enana (the Marquesas group of islands). The group is made up of eleven islands which lie in the South Pacific between 8 to 1 0 degrees south of the equator and 138...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — xix + 519 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 52). 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....
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 380 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 106). Fish has always played a major part in the life of Pacific people. On the far flung atolls of French Polynesia where Western food is not easily obtainable fish is still a staple diet, and fishing occupies a central place in the subsistence economy of the...
University of York, 2018. — 81 p. Alignment in the Polynesian language family varies widely despite the many shared phonological, morphological and lexical features. It is therefore contentious whether ergativity or accusativity should be reconstructed, and what the reconstruction of Proto-Polynesian should look like. Syntactic ergativity and its synchronic and diachronic...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1974. — 260 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 152). Table of contents: Acknowledgements Contents List Of Figures List Of Abbreviations 0. Introduction 1. Theoretical Orientation 2. Syntactic Component 3. Justification Of Categorial Rules 4. Justification Of Lexical Rules 5. Transformational Sub-Component Appendix 1. Some Notes On Phonology Appendix 2....
University of Auckland, 1976. — 394 p. A fairly comprehensive treatment of the main features of Tokelauan sentence structure is the central aim. The syntactic analysis is presented within a framework which is an adaptation of Chomsky's 'Standard Theory' but special consideration is given to the problem of squaring a grammar based on formal evidence with a functionally-based...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 154 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 85). It is the purpose of this study to reconstruct the possessive system of Proto-Polynesian and relate it historically to the possessive marking systems of other Oceanic languages.
Год: 2004. Язык: Русский, уоллисский, футунанский. Введение в уоллисский и футунанский языки - Материалы включают следующие статьи: общие сведения о уоллисском и футунанском языке, тексты с переводом и словарем. Материалы будут полезны всем интересующимся данными языками, а также другими полинезийскими.
Автор и издательство неизвестны. Год: 2004. Язык: Русский, Рапануйский. Рапануйский язык. Грамматика - Данный материал содержит следующие статьи: Описание современного разговорного языка рапануи, Легенда "Макемаке - создатель" со словарем. Материалы будут полезны всем изучающим рапануи.
Год: 2004. Язык: Русский, такуу. Язык Такуу. Грамматика. - Материал включает общие сведения о языке такуу и его грамматике. Материалы заинтересуют всех изучающих такуу и другие полинезийские языки.
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