The Oceanic Languages
Title | The Oceanic Languages PDF eBook |
Author | John Lynch |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 942 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0700711287 |
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.
The Oceanic Languages
Title | The Oceanic Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Donald MacDonald |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Austronesian languages |
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Deixis and Demonstratives in Oceanic Languages
Title | Deixis and Demonstratives in Oceanic Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Gunter Senft |
Publisher | Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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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.
Oceanic Languages
Title | Oceanic Languages PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Oceanic languages |
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A Grammar of South Efate
Title | A Grammar of South Efate PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Thieberger |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 2006-07-31 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 082483061X |
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.
The Oceanic Languages, Their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin
Title | The Oceanic Languages, Their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin PDF eBook |
Author | MacDonald Donald |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2013-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781314199963 |
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Pacific Languages
Title | Pacific Languages PDF eBook |
Author | John Lynch |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 2016-06-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0824842588 |
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.