Author: Edward T. Perkins
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Na motu: or, Reef-rovings in the South seas, a narrative of adventures at the Hawaiian, Georgian and Society islands
Author: Edward T. Perkins
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Na Motu, Or, Reef-rovings in the South Seas
Author: Edward T. Perkins
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Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Reports
Author: Alfred Cort Haddon
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Tales of Manihiki
Author: Kauraka Kauraka
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820202597
Category : Cook Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820202597
Category : Cook Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Selections from the Scriptures, in the Isubu tongue. [Translated by Joseph Merrick.]
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Gazetteer
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language
Author: George Pratt
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Journal of the Polynesian Society
Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Islands of the Central and South Pacific
Author: United States. Hydrographic Office
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Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher:
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Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Predicative Possession
Author: Leon Stassen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191568147
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "the boy has a bat". It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source of many grammaticalization paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and its typology is an important key to understanding the structural variety of the world's languages and how they change. Drawing on data from some 400 languages representing all the world's language families, most of which lack a close equivalent to the verb to have, Professor Stassen aims (a) to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession, (b) to discover and describe the processes by which standard constructions can be modified, and (c) to explore links between the typology of predicative possession and other typologies in order to reveal patterns of interdependence. He shows, for example, that the parameter of simultaneous sequencing - the way a language formally encodes a sequence like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with the way it encodes predicative possession. By means of this and other links the author sets up a single universal model in order to account for all morphosyntactic variation in predicative possession found in the languages of the world, including patterns of variation over time. Predicative Possession will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology and syntax.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191568147
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "the boy has a bat". It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source of many grammaticalization paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and its typology is an important key to understanding the structural variety of the world's languages and how they change. Drawing on data from some 400 languages representing all the world's language families, most of which lack a close equivalent to the verb to have, Professor Stassen aims (a) to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession, (b) to discover and describe the processes by which standard constructions can be modified, and (c) to explore links between the typology of predicative possession and other typologies in order to reveal patterns of interdependence. He shows, for example, that the parameter of simultaneous sequencing - the way a language formally encodes a sequence like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with the way it encodes predicative possession. By means of this and other links the author sets up a single universal model in order to account for all morphosyntactic variation in predicative possession found in the languages of the world, including patterns of variation over time. Predicative Possession will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology and syntax.