The Oceanic Languages

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0700711287
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by John Lynch and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.

Author : Donald MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by Donald MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deixis and Demonstratives in Oceanic Languages written by Gunter Senft and published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we communicate, we communicate in a certain context, and this context shapes our utterances. Natural languages are context-bound and deixis 'concerns the ways in which languages encode or grammaticalise features of the context of utterance or speech event, and thus also concerns ways in which the interpretation of utterances depends on the analysis of that context of utterance' (Stephen Levinson). The systems of deixis and demonstratives in the Oceanic languages represented in the contributions to this volume illustrate the fascinating complexity of spatial reference in these languages. Some of the studies presented here highlight social aspects of deictic reference illustrating de Leon's point that 'reference is a collaborative task' . It is hoped that this anthology will contribute to a better understanding of this area and provoke further studies in this extremely interesting, though still rather underdeveloped, research area.

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Download or read book Oceanic Languages written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082483061X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of South Efate written by Nicholas Thieberger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of PortVila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world’s smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software (Audiamus) developed in the course of the research. An included DVD provides a dictionary and finderlist, a set of interlinearized example texts and elicited sentences, and playable media versions of most example sentences and of the example texts.

Author : John Dominic Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203820384
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by John Dominic Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.

Author : MacDonald Donald
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314199963
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oceanic Languages, Their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin written by MacDonald Donald and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824842588
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Languages written by John Lynch and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided. In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. It devotes considerable attention to the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and to the development of pidgin and creole languages in the Pacific. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum without oversimplifying the concepts or the issues involved. A glossary of technical terms, maps, and diagrams help identify a language geographically or genetically; reading lists and a language index guide the researcher interested in a particular language or group to other sources of information. Here at last is a clear and straightforward overview of Pacific languages for linguists and anyone interested in the history of sociology of the Pacific.

Author : Claire Moyse-Faurie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110259915
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax written by Claire Moyse-Faurie and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a collection of selected papers on Oceanic languages. For the first time, aspects of the morphology and syntax of Oceanic languages such as the encoding of sentence types, the structure of the noun phrase, noun incorporation, constituent order, and ergative vs. accusative alignment are discussed from a comparative point of view, thus drawing attention to genetic, areal and language-specific features. The individual papers are based on the field work of the authors on lesser-described and endangered languages and are basically descriptive studies. At the same time they also explore the theoretical implications of the data presented and analyzed, as well as the historical development of certain morpho-syntactic phenomena, without basing these explorations on a single theoretical framework. The book provides new insights into the morphosyntactic structures of Oceanic languages and is of interest primarily for linguists working on Austronesian, in particular Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian languages, but also for typologists and linguists working on language change.

Author : Charles Elliot Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of the Oceanic Languages written by Charles Elliot Fox and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: