Download or read book Through the Needle s Eye The Legend of the Planet Itnava written by Ace Lundon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marquesan written by Gabriele H. Cablitz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the linguistic and semantic encodings and conceptions of space in the East-Polynesian language Marquesan by focusing on the great variety of language- and culture-specific ways of referring to space, thus documenting an essential part of human behaviour and everyday communication in a South Pacific island population. On the basis of a large corpus of both natural and elicited spoken language data the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of all relevant lexical and grammatical units and constructions used for spatial reference are analysed in detail. Remarkable for this language is the fact that a particular kind of spatial orientation system based on local landmarks of the environment - a so-called 'absolute system' - is used for spatial description even on a micro-level or so-called 'table-top' space. Marquesan - A Grammar of Space is the first comprehensive description and in-depth study of spatial language to be found in an Austronesian language. Apart from examining the complex sociolinguistic situation, the degree of language endangerment in the bilingual speech community and the resulting rapid linguistic change in spatial language use, the book also offers a detailed description of the theoretical background of 'language and space' research and the linguistic variability to be found across languages. Moreover, the volume contains an extensive grammatical sketch of Marquesan which complements the language description of the specific domain space in a useful way providing the reader with general insights into one of the not well documented Oceanic languages. The volume addresses linguists, psycholinguists, anthropologists, fieldworking linguists, and especially Oceanists and Austronesianists. Moreover, it provides important insights for researchers from other disciplines that are interested in the study of space.
Download or read book New Zealand M ori Word Encyclopedia written by Sally-Anne Lambert and published by WE International Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful encyclopedia for anyone interested in Maori language. The 830 pages are broken into parts: Topically indexed dictionary, Grammar keywords, Syllable interpretation, New linguistic terms, plus many others.
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition written by Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
