Ph.D.Thesis. — University of California, Berkeley, 2023. — 484 p. This dissertation provides a description and analysis of the syntax of Nukuoro, an understudied Polynesian Outlier language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia. A primary goal of this work is to provide documentation of Nukuoro in its cultural and historical context; as such, the first part of this...
University of Hawaii Press, 1973. — 860 p. — (PALI Language Texts 27). This Lexicon is designed for use by the Nukuoro people in establishing a lexicographic tradition, and in helping school children standardize their spelling of Nukuoro and learn to express themselves better in English. It is also for the use of scholars interested in the relationships among Polynesian...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 456 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 86). La langue de Wallis appartient a la famille des langues polynesiennes. Elle est apparentee au tongien. Le wallisien est parle par 4500 personnes sur l'ile de Wallis et par 12000 inmigrants en Nouvel le-Caledonie. La langue de Futuna, l'iIe, qui avec...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 380 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 106). Fish has always played a major part in the life of Pacific people. On the far flung atolls of French Polynesia where Western food is not easily obtainable fish is still a staple diet, and fishing occupies a central place in the subsistence economy of the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 154 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 85). It is the purpose of this study to reconstruct the possessive system of Proto-Polynesian and relate it historically to the possessive marking systems of other Oceanic languages.
The Australian National University, 1970. — 144 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 17). This monograph deals with the phonology of Tuamotuan. The descriptive framework used here is that of Dr. Biggs as presented in Biggs (1961), Carrol (1965), Newbrand (1951), and Trager-Smith (1957) have also been consulted occasionally. Three styles of speech are distinguished in this study,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 132 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 533). The Va Pou dialect of the Marquesan language is spoken on the island of Va Pou in Te Henua Enana (the Marquesas group of islands). The group is made up of eleven islands which lie in the South Pacific between 8 to 1 0 degrees south of the equator and 138...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2011. — 438 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 634). Takuu is a Polynesian outlier in Papua New Guinea whose community chose to ban Christian churches and missionaries in the 1960s, and which is arguably the last location where traditional Polynesian religion is still openly and extensively practised, as...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 2558 p. The vast territory of French Polynesia is home to seven distinct languages – Tahitian, Austral, Ra'ivavae, Rapa, Mangarevan, Pa'umotu and Marquesan – which in turn show internal variation. The fruit of ten years of joint work by two linguists of French CNRS, Jean-Michel Charpentier and Alexandre François, the Linguistic Atlas of French...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 2558 p. The vast territory of French Polynesia is home to seven distinct languages – Tahitian, Austral, Ra'ivavae, Rapa, Mangarevan, Pa'umotu and Marquesan – which in turn show internal variation. The fruit of ten years of joint work by two linguists of French CNRS, Jean-Michel Charpentier and Alexandre François, the Linguistic Atlas of French...
University of Hawaii, 1969. — 185 p. This thesis deals with the phonology of Tuamotuan. Three styles of speech are distinguished in this thesis, namely slow deliberate speech, fast deliberate speech and natural speech.
University of York, 2018. — 81 p. Alignment in the Polynesian language family varies widely despite the many shared phonological, morphological and lexical features. It is therefore contentious whether ergativity or accusativity should be reconstructed, and what the reconstruction of Proto-Polynesian should look like. Syntactic ergativity and its synchronic and diachronic...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1974. — 260 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 152). Table of contents: Acknowledgements Contents List Of Figures List Of Abbreviations 0. Introduction 1. Theoretical Orientation 2. Syntactic Component 3. Justification Of Categorial Rules 4. Justification Of Lexical Rules 5. Transformational Sub-Component Appendix 1. Some Notes On Phonology Appendix 2....
Australian Catholic University, 1988. — 495 p. Niuafo'ou shares with its neighbouring Polynesian languages Tongan and 'Uvean (Bataillon 1932) the same inventory of segmental phonemes which consists of five vowels and twelve consonants. Phonetic long vowels and diphthongs occur, but long vowels are analysed either as sequences of two identical vowels (I.2.2. ( C-1)) or as...
University of Auckland, 1976. — 394 p. A fairly comprehensive treatment of the main features of Tokelauan sentence structure is the central aim. The syntactic analysis is presented within a framework which is an adaptation of Chomsky's 'Standard Theory' but special consideration is given to the problem of squaring a grammar based on formal evidence with a functionally-based...
University of Hawaii, 2015. — iv, 168 p. Penrhyn is a Polynesian language spoken on the atoll of Tongareva in the Northern Cook Islands.The Northern Cook Islands form an area for which information is particularly deficient. Penrhyn is in the Northern Cooks and there is no grammar or dictionary of this language.The purpose of this thesis is, therefore, to discover and describe...
Université Lumière Lyon 2, France; Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596); LACITO (UMR 7107), 2013. — 528 p. Cette thèse de doctorat a pour objectif de décrire la situation actuelle de la langue iaai (langue océanienne, famille austronésienne) et de proposer une analyse de ses dynamismes d’évolution. En tant que langue kanak minoritaire de Nouvelle-Calédonie, inscrite dans...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 368 p. - The first volume exploring theoretical approaches to Polynesian languages - Discusses key issues including case systems, word order variation, and isolating morphology - Shows how data from Polynesian languages contributes to comparative syntactic research This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its...
A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Māori Studies. — The University of Auckland, 2016. — 463 p. A grammar of the Polynesian language spoken on the Southern Cook Islands, specially on the island of Rarotonga. Cook Islands Māori is an endangered East Polynesian language closely related to but distinct from Tahitian and...
A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Linguistics. — School of Humanities and Social Science; Faculty of Education and Arts; University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 2020. — 330 p. A grammar of the Polynesian language spoken on the islands of Manihiki and Rakahanga, two of the northern islands on the Cook Islands...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2017. — xix, 639 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 12). — ISBN 978-3-946234-75-3. This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and...
Traducción: Melisa Pont Tepano. — Investigación y edición general: Rodrigo Olavarría Lavín. — Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y Familia del Gobierno de Chile, 2021. — 80 p. Tras varios de meses de trabajo, junto al equipo de la Unidad de Coordinación de Asuntos Indígenas del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y Familia, hemos finalizado el desarrollo de una herramienta, que...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — xix + 519 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 52). Vaeakau-Taumako, also known as Pileni, is a Polynesian Outlier language spoken in the Reef and Duff Islands in the Solomon Islands' Temotu Province. This is an area of great linguistic diversity and long-standing language contact which has had far-reaching effects on the linguistic situation....
University of Hawai‘i Press, 1974. — xlix + 978 p. 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....
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — The University of Auckland, 2002. — 709 p. A grammar of the Pukapuka language, a Samoic outlier spoken in the Cook Islands Archipelago. It is the only language of this area which does not belong to the Eastern Polynesian Group
Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum, 1981. — 78 p. — ISBN: 87-480-0339-15. Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a passing British ship, the Bellona. Rennell Island was named after Lord Rennell, president of the Royal...
Summary in Danish. København: Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1975. — 243 p. — (Folia Geographica Danica 13 [Language and Culture of Rennel and Bellona Islands 5]). — ISBN: 87-421-0508-0. Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of...
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press / Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum, 1965. — x + 419 p. — (Language and Culture of Rennell and Bellona Islands 1). Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a passing British ship, the...
Illustrated by Sengeika Tepuke, Bellona. — Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum, 1975. — xvii + 223 p. — (Language and Culture of Rennel and Bellona Islands 4). — ISBN: 87-480-0076-0. Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a...
Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum, 1966. — xii + 135 p. — (Language and Culture of Rennel and Bellona Islands 2.1). Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a passing British ship, the Bellona. Rennell Island was named after...
Special Editor Albert Schütz. — Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. — xx + 305 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication 22). — ISBN: 0-8248-1205-0. Rennell-Bellona or Rennellese is a Polynesian language (Austronesian language family) spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Provinces of the Solomon Islands. In 1793 Bellona Island was named after a passing British ship,...
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter / Papeete: Université de la Polynésie Française, 2015. — ii + 2257 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-026035-9; e-ISBN: 978-3-11-026035-9; e-ISBN: 978-3-11-037691-3. C’est à la fin des années 1980, lors de la création de l’Université de la Polynésie française, que Louise Peltzer eut l’idée d’élaborer un atlas linguistique de la Polynésie française. Alors engagée dans...
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter / Papeete: Université de la Polynésie Française, 2015. — ii + 2257 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-026035-9; e-ISBN: 978-3-11-026035-9; e-ISBN: 978-3-11-037691-3. C’est à la fin des années 1980, lors de la création de l’Université de la Polynésie française, que Louise Peltzer eut l’idée d’élaborer un atlas linguistique de la Polynésie française. Alors engagée dans...
With the collaboration of Donald Stanley Marshall. The Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts and Het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (The Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology), The Hague. — Dordrecht: Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V, 1964. — 633 p. — ISBN: 978-94-017-5862-8, ISBN: 978-94-017-6343-1. J. Frank Stimson went to school at...
University of Washington, 2016. — xi + 176 p. East Uvean, also called Faka’Uvea or le wallisien, is a Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, spoken on Wallis Island (‘Uvea) in the French collectivity of Wallis and Futuna, as well as by populations in New Caledonia and metropolitan France. It is a verb-initial language, with basic transitive clauses alternating between VPA...
Vrije Universiteit, 2016. — xix + 607 p. This thesis offers a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language of Easter Island. The phonology of the language reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final vowel devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2000. — xxii + 302 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 504). This book is the result of an extended investigation of the relation between languages and the human communities from which words draw their vitality. At its heart is the search for an even better understanding of processes of language change and...
Wellington: Lyon and Blair, Lambton Quay, 1891. — xxiv + 675 p. This dictionary, collected by Edward Robert Tregear and published in 1891, contains entries in Maori, Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian, Raratongan, Marquesan, Mangarevan, Paumotuan, and Morimori. With helpful pronunciation and additional contextual information, it is a great help to linguists, historians,...
Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1895. — 160 p. Historical dictionary of the Paumotuan (Tuamotuan) language. The Vocabulary will be found to be of especial interest to students of Oceanic languages. The bulk of the words are Polynesian, but there is an admixture from some foreign source, as yet untraced, which seem to have no relation to any other known Polynesian dialect
Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1931. — vii + 446 p. Grammar and dictionary of the Marquesan language. Marquesan is a collection of East-Central Polynesian dialects, of the Marquesic group, spoken by approximately 8,700 people in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia.
University of Hawai'i, 2015. — xix + 316 p. This dissertation presents the results of a language documentation project carried out in Rapa Iti, the southernmost island of French Polynesia. It first highlights the indigenous language of Rapa Iti (“Old Rapa”) as an endangered and under-documented Polynesian language and provides the first linguistic description of it. Second, this...
Unpublished, 2012. — vi + 521 p. Sikaiana is a member of the Ellicean branch of Polynesian languages spoken on the island of the same name located about 100 miles east of Malaita in the Solomon Islands. The core of this dictionary was compiled from data collected between October 1980 and July 1983.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1985. — vi + 258 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 56). Futuna-Aniwa is a Polynesian language spoken in the Tafea Province of Vanuatu on the outlier islands of Futuna and Aniwa. The language has approximately 1,500 speakers. This Dictionary was begun by the compiler many years ago in the course of his...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1998. — xv + 158 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 149). This dictionary results from a series of working visits to Mele village between 1974 and 1986. Mele is a Polynesian language spoken in Mele and Ifira on the island of Efate in Vanuatu.
Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. — 682 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 169). Marquesan, an endangered Polynesian language, is remarkable because its speakers use a spatial orientation system based on local landmarks in the environment to describe spatial relations even in micro-level space. This volume is an in-depth empirical analysis of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — x + 338 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 90). — ISBN: 0858833484. La langue de Futuna appartient à la famille des langues polynésiennes. Elle est apparentée plutôt à la langue de Samoa qu'à la langue de Wallis. Les différences entre le futunien et le wallisien sont surtout d'ordre phonologique et...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1980. — viii + 243 p. ISBN: 0858832275.
Nanumea is the northernmost island of Tuvalu and is home to around 1000 residents and some 700 expatriate speakers of the Nanumea language, which is a member of the Samoic-Outlier subgroup of the Polynesian language family.
Material for the present work was collected during...
Office of Tokelau Affairs, 1986. — l + 503 p.
This dictionary involved collaboration between many people and diverse institutions. It has been 10 years in the making, and has involved close co-operation between Tokelauans (both in Tokelau and in New Zealand), the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the University of Auckland.
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1996. — viii + 721 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 123). — ISBN: 0858834154. Maori, the language of the Cook Islands, consists of a number of mutually intelligible dialects. This dictionary is concerned chiefly with the dialect of Rarotonga, the main island, but many words characteristic of other...
National Museum of Denmark, 1981. - xvi + 134 p. ISBN: 8748003158
This dictionary contains about 5,500 entries but is smaller than the Rennellese and Bellonese to English dictionary (Part 1) because much of the information in Part 1 is not repeated here. It will be necessary for persons using this dictionary to consult Part 1 continually. Even native speakers will have to do...
National Museum of Denmark, 1975. - xix + 345 p. ISBN: 8748000493
The people on the islands of Rennell and Bellona in the Solomon Islands speak a Polynesian language perhaps most closely related to Samoan, East Uvean, Futunan, and Tikopian, but containing many non-Polynesian words. The Rennellese and Bellonese dialects comprise a single language spoken by about 2,400 people....
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 17 (1888), p. 282-9. Aniwa is a low coral island in the south of the New Hebrides group. It lies 10 miles north-east of Tanna, and 50 miles north of Aneiteura, in South latitude 19 o 15', and East longitude 169 o 40'. The population is rapidly decreasing, and in 1874 was only 194. Though the natives of...
Hogbin H. Notes on a Grammar of the Language of Ongtong Java. Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, Vol. 5, No. 4 (1930), pp. 823-853.
Единственное описание фонетики, морфологии, лексики и синтаксиса полинезийского языка-аутлаера онтонг-джава (луангиуа), распространённого на одноимённом острове в составе Соломоновых Островов.
Phonetic System...
Routledge, 2010. — 234 p. — Series: Descriptive Grammars Rapanui, the language of Easter Island, is in danger of extinction. A Polynesian language, closely related to Maori, it is spoken by less than 2000 people. This description, based on recordings made in the 1980s and on information provided by the islanders, represents Veronica De Feu's determination to recored the...
Santiago de Chile: Impresiones del Instituto Meteorológico, 1913. — 47 p.
Мартинес Эдгардо. Словарь рапануйского языка острова Пасхи (на исп. и рапануйск. яз.)
Índice:
Introducción.
Advertencia.
Verbos.
Sustantivos, etc.
Adverbios, preposiciones, etc.
Números.
Meses, días de la semana, etc.
Diferentes clases de plantas comestibles.
Nombres Zoológicos.
Diferentes...
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., 1950. — 77 p. Грэйс Дж. У. Место полинезийских языков в составе австронезийской (малайско-полинезийской) языковой семьи (на англ.яз.). Historical Background. The Methodology. Phonology. Grammar. Vocabulary. Conclusions. Glottochronology. Chart of Sound Correspondences. Map.
Грамматика языка тувалу. Сува, 1945.
This Tuvalu/Ellice Islands grammar was first published in 1945. It has been scanned and now posted on this web site as part of a long-term experiment to learn more about how best to present linguistic and ethnographic data on the internet. It may be possible to add sound at a later date to allow users to hear how the language is pronounced....
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 253 p. — (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language). — ISBN: 0-521-48087-6; ISBN: 0-521-48539-8. In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society, using a contemporary perspective that emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded...
Routledge, 2000. — 689 p. — ISBN: 0-203-17361-9. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, a language spoken in Polynesia. While the language shares features commonly found amongst Polynesian languages, it exhibits a number of divergent features of interest to scholars of Pacific languages, comparative linguistics, language typology, and...
University of California Press, 1984. — 711 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 102). Futuna is an island in the Tafea province of Vanuatu. It is the easternmost island in the country. It was formed by the uplift of an underwater volcano, which last erupted in the Pleistocene, at least 11,000 years ago. It reaches a height of 666 m. It is sometimes called...
Lincom Europa, 1996. — 48 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 58). Tokelau comprises three atolls, Atafu, Nukunono and Fakaofo, situated 750 miles northwest of Samoa. Tokelauan belongs to the Polynesian sub-group of Austronesian. It is spoken by about approximately 5000 people, of whom about 1600 live in the atolls, about 3000 in New Zealand, and several hundred elsewhere...
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Internet
Publication date: 2009
Number of pages: 138
Rapa Nui or Rapanui [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], also known as Pascuan /ˈpæskjuːən/ or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island.
The island is home to a population of just under 4000 and is a special territory of Chile. According to census...
Publisher: Pasifika Press
Date: 1995
Format / Quality: MP3 / 160kkps
ISBN: 0908597142
Source languages: English, Cook Islands Maori
A language coursebook designed for both personal and classroom use and suitable for a wide range of ages and backgrounds, from secondary level to adult. Includes 60 sets of exercises, songs and word lists.
Publisher: Pasifika Press Date: 1995 Pages: 151 + cover and back matter ISBN: 0908597142 Source languages: English, Cook Islands Maori A language coursebook designed for both personal and classroom use and suitable for a wide range of ages and backgrounds, from secondary level to adult. Includes 60 sets of exercises, songs and word lists.
Год: 2004. Язык: Русский, такуу. Язык Такуу. Грамматика. - Материал включает общие сведения о языке такуу и его грамматике. Материалы заинтересуют всех изучающих такуу и другие полинезийские языки.
Автор и издательство неизвестны. Год: 2004. Язык: Русский, Рапануйский. Рапануйский язык. Грамматика - Данный материал содержит следующие статьи: Описание современного разговорного языка рапануи, Легенда "Макемаке - создатель" со словарем. Материалы будут полезны всем изучающим рапануи.
Год: 2004. Язык: Русский, уоллисский, футунанский. Введение в уоллисский и футунанский языки - Материалы включают следующие статьи: общие сведения о уоллисском и футунанском языке, тексты с переводом и словарем. Материалы будут полезны всем интересующимся данными языками, а также другими полинезийскими.
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