Download or read book Grammar and Comparative Study of the Languages of Kapingamarangi written by Samuel Hoyt Elbert and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kapingamarangi Lexicon written by Michael D. Lieber and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kapingamarangi lexicon is designed for use by the Kapinga in their own classrooms as a teaching resource, by comparative linguists interested in Polynesian languages, and as an aid for those learning Kapinga. The lexicon presents an exhaustive list of 6,000 root words and their use in deriving words, compounds, and phrases. An introduction delineates the rules of word structure in the Kapinga language in simple, nontechnical English with explanatory footnotes in Kapinga. In addition, the introduction includes material directed primarily to linguists dealing with such problems as word classes, problems of reduplication, and the like. The lexicon itself is arranged in three listings: Kapingamarangi-English, English-Kapingamarangi, and by root words, demonstrating how they are systematically derived and compounded.

Download or read book Polynesian Languages written by Viktor Krupa and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Polynesian Languages".

Download or read book Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian written by Sandra Chung and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian. In its treatment of the history of case marking in Polynesian, it attempts to specify what counts as evidence in syntactic reconstruction and how syntactic reanalysis progresses. It therefore represents a first step toward a general theory of syntactic change. Chung first describes the basic syntax of the Polynesian languages, discussing Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Kapingamarangi, and Pukapukan in depth. She then presents an investigation of the grammatical relations of these languages and their relevance to syntax and shows that the syntax of all these languages—even those with ergative case marking—revolves around the familiar grammatical relations subject and direct object. Finally the book traces the historical development of the different case systems from their origins in Proto-Polynesian.

Download or read book Linguistics in Oceania written by J. D. Bowen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Linguistics in Oceania".

Download or read book Oedipus written by Lowell Edmunds and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classicist Lowell Edmunds and folklorist Alan Dundes both note that “the Oedipus tale is not likely to ever fade from view in Western civilization, [as] the tale continues to pack a critical family drama into a timeless form.” Looking beyond the story related in Sophocles’ drama—the ancient Theban myth of the son who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother—Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook examines variations of the tale from Africa and South America to Eastern Europe and the Pacific. Taking sociological, psychological, anthropological, and structuralist perspectives, the nineteen essays reveal the complexities and multiple meanings of this centuries-old tale. In addition to the well-known interpretations of the Oedipus myth by Sigmund Freud and James Frazer, this casebook includes insightful selections by an international group of scholars. Essays on a Serbian Oedipus legend by Friedrich Krauss and on a Gypsy version by Mirella Karpati, for example, stress the psychological stages of atonement after the Oedipus figure learns the truth about his actions. Anthropologist Melford E. Spiro investigates the myth’s appearance in Burma and the significance of the mother’s identification with the dragon (the sphinx figure). Vladimir Propp’s essay, translated into English for the first time, and Lowell Edmunds’s theoretical review discuss the relation of the Oedipus story to the larger study of folklore. The result is a comprehensive and fascinating casebook for students of folklore, classical mythology, anthropology, and sociology.

Download or read book Studies in Oceanic Culture History written by Roger Curtis Green and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Motif Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives written by Bacil F. Kirtley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work analyzes and classifies the story themes of Polynesian myths, tales, and legends according to an internationally employed system developed by Stith Thompson in his Motif Index of Folk-Literature ( 1955-1958). Thousands of tales, including those from almost all of the major original collections from the Polynesian area, have been examined and their thematic contents cataloged in this work. In his introduction, the author explains the concept of the motif as a basis for cataloging. He quotes from Professor Thompson's definition of a motif: “the smallest element in a tale having the power to persist in tradition,” for example, gods, marvelous creatures, magic objects, and certain kinds of incidents. The author believes “the function of an index of motifs is to cite bibliographical sources of narratives containing these viable (often irreducible) story elements, and thus to provide the investigator of specific story ideas with comparative Information.” The present work is an attempt to survey thoroughly the totality of Polynesian oral tradition and to indicate the distribution and relationships of narrative materials. Not since the publication of Roland B. Dixon's work on Oceanic mythology in 1916 has this been attempted. This index will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone doing research in Oceanic ethnology and folklore.

Download or read book Studies in Oceanic Culture History written by R. C.. Green and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cyclical Change Continued written by Elly van Gelderen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles take, the interactions between different cycles, the typical stages and their stability, and the areal factors influencing cycles. The languages and language families that are considered in depth are Central Pomo, Cherokee, Chinese, English, French, Gbe, German, Hmong-Mien, Maipurean, Mayan, Mohawk, Mon-Khmer, Niger-Congo, Nupod, Quechuan, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai , Tuscarora, Ute, and Yoruboid. One paper covers several of the world’s language families. Cyclical change connects linguists working in various frameworks because it is exciting to find a reason behind this fascinating phenomenon.

Download or read book Report on the Fund s Activities for the Year Ended written by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Echo of a Culture written by Samuel Hoyt Elbert and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Fund s Activities for the Year Viking Fund written by Viking Fund and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Survey of Materials for the Study of the Uncommonly Taught Languages Languages of Southeast Asia and the Pacific written by Center for Applied Linguistics and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Survey of Materials for the Study of the Uncommonly Taught Languages Pidgins and Creoles European based written by Center for Applied Linguistics and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1876 1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.