Ch. 1. Motivations for a study of space -- Ch. 2. Ethnographic and linguistic background and methodology -- Ch. 3. Grammatical sketch -- Ch. 4. Theoretical background of language and space research -- Ch. 5. Semantic and morphosyntactic analysis of locative constructions in North Marquesan -- Ch. 6. Modifiers in locative constructions -- Ch. 7. Usage of locative constructions in large-scale and small-scale reference -- Ch. 8. Summary and conclusion
Summary
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 spatial reference and the conception of space in this language
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 652-671) and index
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