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Tuvaluan Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Tuvaluan By Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Summary

The first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia.

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Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. by Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

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.

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'Tuvaluan is a tour de force, a work of consummate scholarship, most unlikely to be bettered in its essentials.' - H.G.A. Hughes, Languages and Literature

About Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

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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

Additional information

NLS9781138993938
9781138993938
113899393X
Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. by Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2016-08-04
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