The Relationships of Polynesian Outlier Languages
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Oral Traditions of Anuta : A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands
Author : Richard Feinberg Professor of Anthropology Kent State University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195355474
Book Description
Anuta is a small Polynesian community in the eastern Solomon Islands that has had minimal contact with outside cultural forces. Even at the end of the twentieth century, it remains one of the most traditional and isolated islands in the insular Pacific. In Oral Traditions of Anuta, Richard Feinberg offers a telling collection of Anutan historical narratives, including indigenous texts and English translations. This rich, thorough assemblage is the result of a collaborative project between Feinberg and a large cross-section of the Anutan community that developed over a period of twenty-five years. The volume's emphasis is ethnographic, consisting of a number of texts as related by the island's most respected experts in matters of traditional history. Feinberg's annotations, which arm the reader with essential ethnographic and historical contexts, clarify important linguistic and cultural issues that arise from the stories. The texts themselves have important implications for the relationship of oral tradition to history and symbolic structures, and afford new evidence pertinent to Polynesian language sub-grouping. Further, they provide insight into a number of Anutan customs and preoccupations, while also suggesting certain widespread Polynesian practices dating back to the pre-contact and early contact periods.
Polynesian Languages
Author : Viktor Krupa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110899280
Book Description
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Archaeology and Language IV
Author : Roger Blench
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134816243
Book Description
Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.
A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako
Author : Åshild Næss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110238276
Book Description
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. Historically, speakers of Vaeakau-Taumako were shipbuilders and navigators who made trade voyages throughout the area, bringing them into constant contact with speakers of the Reefs-Santa Cruz, Utupua and Vanikoro languages. The latter languages are only distantly related to Vaeakau-Taumako, making up an only recently identified first-order subgroup of Oceanic. Polynesian speakers first arrived in the area some 700-1000 years ago from the core Polynesian areas to the east. While today most intra-group communication takes place in Solomon Islands Pijin, traditionally the situation was one of extensive multilingualism, and this has left profound traces in the grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako, which shows a number of structural properties not known from other Polynesian languages. A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako is the most comprehensive grammar of any Polynesian Outlier to date, and the first full-length grammar of any language of Temotu Province. Based on extensive fieldwork, it is structured as a reference grammar dealing with all aspects of language structure, from phonology to discourse organization, and including a selection of glossed texts. It will be of interest to typologists, Oceanic linguists, and researchers interested in language contact. “/P>
Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World
Author : Tom Dutton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110883090
Book Description
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Polynesian Syntax and Its Interfaces
Author : Lauren Clemens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198860838
Book Description
This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family. Chapters offer in-depth analyses of a range of theoretical issues of particular interest for comparative syntactic research, such as ergativity and case systems, negation, and the left periphery.
Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 610 1981
Author : Anders Ahlqvist
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902728069X
Book Description
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6–10 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages.
The Oceanic Languages
Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0700711287
Book Description
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.
Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110819724
Book Description
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
