| Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. Contributor(s): Besnier, Niko (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415024560 ISBN-13: 9780415024563 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $332.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, a language spoken in Polynesia. While the language shares features commonly found amongst Polynesian languages, it exhibits a number of divergent features of interest to scholars of Pacific languages, comparative linguistics, language typology, and language universals. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Oceanic & Australian Languages - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 499.46 |
| LCCN: 98043190 |
| Physical Information: 1.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.50 lbs) 688 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language. |