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The Oceanic languages, a subgroup within the Austronesian language family, comprise at least 450 languages in the geographical area encompassing Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The articles in this book deal with morphosyntactic properties related to sentence types and nominal expressions in un...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2011] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ; 239 |
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| Summary: |
The Oceanic languages, a subgroup within the Austronesian language family, comprise at least 450 languages in the geographical area encompassing Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The articles in this book deal with morphosyntactic properties related to sentence types and nominal expressions in under-explored and endangered Oceanic languages. These properties may vary within the family, they give rise to new empirical generalizations, and they illustrate properties that are relevant for theoretical developments in modern linguistic theory. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (350 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110259919（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | PL5033 |
| CLC: | H63 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part one: Sentential syntax and sentence types -- Deriving linear order in OV/VO languages: evidence from Oceanic languages -- Questions and answers in Niuean -- Questions and word order in Polynesian -- Nominalization and exclamation in Oceanic languages -- Part two: Nominal morphosyntax -- Two or three things in the Unua noun phrase -- Noun incorporation in Saliba -- Noun-phrase conjunction in Austronesian languages: additive, inclusory and comitative strategies -- Part three: Historical developments -- Neither accusative nor ergative: an alternative analysis of case in Eastern Polynesian -- Grammaticalization of Tahitian mea thing, matter into a stative aspect -- Subject index -- Language index |