Download or read book A New Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect of the Polynesian Language Together with Brief Reading Exercises written by Ernest G. Rossiter and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conversational Tahitian written by Darrell T. Tryon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect of the Polynesian Language written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grammar of Rapa Nui written by Paulus Kieviet and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.

Download or read book English Tahitian Tahitian English Dictionary written by Sven Wahlroos and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most useful and comprehensive English-Tahitian, Tahitian-English dictionary available. The author, who was a devoted student of Tahitian for more than three decades, provides an extensive introduction to the language with detailed notes on grammar, usage, and pronunciation. This reprint edition has been re-sized to 6 inches x 9.25 inches, making it a convenient and handier alternative to larger-sized dictionaries.

Download or read book A Tahitian and English dictionary with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect written by Jerbert John Davies and published by Jerbert John Davies. This book was released on with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tahitian and English dictionary, with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language, and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect

Download or read book A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language written by J.F. Stimson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia written by James Richardson Logan and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book List of Grammars Dictionaries Etc written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Maori Polynesian Comparative Dictionary written by Edward Tregear and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Māori dictionary with English definitions and Polynesian comparisons"--BIM.

Download or read book The Voices of Eden written by Albert J. Schütz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did outsiders first become aware of the Hawaiian language? How were they and Hawaiians able to understand each other? How was Hawaiian recorded and analyzed in the early decades after European contact Albert J. Schutz provides illuminating answers to these and other questions about Hawaii's postcontact linguistic past. The result is a highly readable and accessible account of Hawaiian history from a language-centered point of view. The author also provides readers with an exhaustive analysis and critique of nearly every work ever written about Hawaiian.

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

Download or read book Hawaiian Language written by Albert J. Schütz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook’s naturalist and philologist William Anderson, ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia (the inspiration for the Hawaiian Mission), the American lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players. The account begins in prehistory, placing the probable origins of the ancestor of Polynesian languages in mainland Asia. An evolving family tree reflects the linguistic changes that took place as these people moved east. The current versions are examined from a Hawaiian-centered point of view, comparing the sound system of the language with those of its major relatives in the Polynesian triangle. More recent historical topics begin with the first written samples of a Polynesian language in 1616, which led to the birth of the idea of a widespread language family. The next topic is how the Hawaiian alphabet was developed. The first efforts suffered from having too many letters, a problem that was solved in 1826 through brilliant reasoning by its framers and their Hawaiian consultants. The opposite problem was that the alphabet didn’t have enough letters: analysts either couldn’t hear or misinterpreted the glottal stop and long vowels. The end product of the development of the alphabet—literacy—is more complicated than some statistics would have us believe. As for its success or failure, both points of view, from contemporary observers, are presented. Still, it cannot be denied that literacy had a tremendous and lasting effect on Hawaiian culture. The last part of the book concentrates on the most-used Hawaiian reference works—dictionaries. It describes current projects that combine print and manuscript collections on a searchable website. These projects can include the growing body of manuscript and print material that is being made available through recent and ongoing research. As for the future, a proposed monolingual dictionary would allow users to avoid an English bridge to understanding, and move directly to a definition that includes Hawaiian cultural features and a Hawaiian worldview.

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Download or read book Tr bner s Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World written by Nicolas Trübner and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Archaeology and Language IV written by Roger Blench and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.