Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central PacificPsychology Press, 2000 - 662 Seiten 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. |
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adjectives adverbs allomorphs anaphoric argument coconut complements compounds contexts coordinated deletion denote dialects direct object discourse discussed eiloa eiloo element entity equational constructions example expressed fano fenua foki Funafuti function grammatical iloa inalienable possession interrogative word interrogative-word intransitive island katoa kolaa laatou language locative loto maneaba marked meaning morpheme Nanumea nee ia negated nominalized noun phrase Nps Neg Nukufetau Nukulaelae numerals patterns personal pronouns plural Polynesian Polynesian languages possessive modifier possessive pronoun postposed predicative preposed prepositional phrases pronominal quantifier refer reflexive relative clause relativized Samoan seeai seki semantic sentence structure subjects of transitive subordinate clause suffix superordinate clause syntactic tamaliki tasi te vaka teenaa teenei tena the+person their-3 tino toku transitive verbs Tuvalu Tuvaluan Vaitupu vaka Vave verbal