Nikukua Sai Nagkiariien Nininife

Nikukua Sai Nagkiariien Nininife PDF Author: Lamont Lindstrom
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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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Nikukua Sai Nagkiariien Nininife

Nikukua Sai Nagkiariien Nininife PDF Author: Lamont Lindstrom
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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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Comparative Austronesian Dictionary

Comparative Austronesian Dictionary PDF Author: Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110884011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 3564

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Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.

Pacific Languages

Pacific Languages PDF Author: John Lynch
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824818982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided. In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. It devotes considerable attention to the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and to the development of pidgin and creole languages in the Pacific. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum without oversimplifying the concepts or the issues involved. A glossary of technical terms, maps, and diagrams help identify a language geographically or genetically; reading lists and a language index guide the researcher interested in a particular language or group to other sources of information. Here at last is a clear and straightforward overview of Pacific languages for linguists and anyone interested in the history of sociology of the Pacific.

Kwamera Dictionary

Kwamera Dictionary PDF Author: Lamont Lindstrom
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Acquisition List

Acquisition List PDF Author: University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Pacific Collection
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Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Arts of Vanuatu

Arts of Vanuatu PDF Author: Joël Bonnemaison
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824819569
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This prodigiously diverse and living culture has for its spiritual source a single traditional vision central to which is the fact that the world belongs not to the living, but to the ancestors. In Vanuatu art we have the construction of canoes and of standing slit-drums, the inventiveness apparent in the masks and mats, the aesthetics of dress, the raising of tusker pigs, the sharing out of sea-turtle meat, the symbol of the hawk representing the outward sign of the possession of the world through the eyes of the departed. This art, sacred in inspiration, takes root in the magic of each place and shore. Arts of Vanuatu is the first major contemporary anthropology work covering such a range of topics. It is also the first work covering the traditional art of the former South Pacific island colony of the New Hebrides.

Pacific Linguistics

Pacific Linguistics PDF Author:
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Category : Khmu' language
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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Publications of the Research School of Pacific Studies 1962-1987

Publications of the Research School of Pacific Studies 1962-1987 PDF Author: Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Three Elema Myths

Three Elema Myths PDF Author: Herbert A. Brown
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Tiwi Today

Tiwi Today PDF Author:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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