TY  - BOOK
AU  - Næss,Åshild
AU  - Hovdhaugen,Even
TI  - A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako
T2  - Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
SN  - 9783110238266
AV  - PL6488 N25 2011
U1  - 490 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Feldforschung
KW  - Grammatik
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Fieldwork
KW  - Grammars
KW  - Polynesian
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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 Texts --; Appendix 2 List of grammatical morphemes --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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. ‹
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238273
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