Niuean : predicates and arguments in an isolating language /
This volume explores predication in Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand. It extends our understanding of cross-linguistic sentence structure and grammatical case, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, typo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Niuean |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford Unversity Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies of endangered languages.
Oxford linguistics. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume explores predication in Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand. It extends our understanding of cross-linguistic sentence structure and grammatical case, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, typology, and theoretical linguistics. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191835339 0191835331 9780192512116 0192512110 |