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Author Næss, Åshild.

Title A grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako / by Åshild Næss and Even Hovdhaugen
Published Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 519 pages) : maps
Series Mouton grammar library ; 52
Mouton grammar library ; 52.
Contents Preface; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Phonology; Chapter 3: Word classes; Chapter 4: Reduplication; Chapter 5: Deictics; Chapter 6: Nominal morphology; Chapter 7: Noun phrase structure; Chapter 8: Verbal morphology; Chapter 9: Verb phrase structure; Chapter 10: Prepositions; Chapter 11: Modifiers; Chapter 12: Tense, aspect, and mood; Chapter 13: Simple clauses; Chapter 14: Complex clauses; Chapter 15: Serial verbs and related constructions; Chapter 16: Negation and questions; Chapter 17: Coordination and conjunctions; Chapter 18: Discourse organization
Appendix 1: TextsAppendix 2: List of grammatical morphemes
Summary This 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Pileni language.
Pileni language -- Grammar
Polynesian languages.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Oceanic & Australian Languages.
Language and languages
Pileni language
Polynesian languages
Grammatik
Pileni-Sprache
Pileni.
SUBJECT Solomon Islands -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001813
Subject Solomon Islands
Pileni-Sprache
Form Electronic book
Author Hovdhaugen, Even.
LC no. 2011017828
ISBN 9783110238273
3110238276
1283399504
9781283399500
9786613399502
6613399507