| A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako Contributor(s): Næss, Åshild (Author), Hovdhaugen, Even (Author) |
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ISBN: 3110238268 ISBN-13: 9783110238266 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $313.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous |
| Dewey: 499.46 |
| LCCN: 2011017828 |
| Series: Mouton Grammar Library [Mgl] |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 9.7" W x 7" (2.30 lbs) 538 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nss, Ashild: - Ashild Naess and Even Hovdhaugen, University of Oslo, Norway. |
