A grammar of Rapa Nui
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 nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clau...
Salvato in:
| Autore principale: | |
|---|---|
| Natura: | Capitolo di libro |
| Pubblicazione: |
Language Science Press
2017
|
| Soggetti: | |
| Accesso online: | Get Fullteks DOAB: description of the publication |
| Tags: |
Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne! !
|
| LEADER | 02886naaaa2200409uu 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | doab_20_500_12854_27778 | ||
| 020 | |a zenodo.235525 | ||
| 020 | |a 9783946234760;9781542544795 | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.5281/zenodo.235525 |c doi | |
| 041 | 0 | |a English | |
| 042 | |a dc | ||
| 072 | 7 | |a CF |2 bicssc | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Kievit, Paulus |4 auth | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a A grammar of Rapa Nui |
| 260 | |b Language Science Press |c 2017 | ||
| 300 | |a 1 electronic resource (665 p.) | ||
| 506 | 0 | |a Open Access |2 star |f Unrestricted online access | |
| 520 | |a 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 nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a 'neutral' aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui's relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index. | ||
| 540 | |a Creative Commons |f https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |2 cc |4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | ||
| 546 | |a English | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a linguistics |2 bicssc | |
| 653 | |a reduplication patterns | ||
| 653 | |a polynseian languages | ||
| 653 | |a metrical constraints | ||
| 653 | |a phonological shape of words | ||
| 653 | |a easter island | ||
| 653 | |a word-final devoicing | ||
| 653 | |a Determiner | ||
| 653 | |a Noun | ||
| 653 | |a Noun phrase | ||
| 653 | |a Polynesian languages | ||
| 653 | |a Preposition and postposition | ||
| 653 | |a Tahitian language | ||
| 653 | |a Verb | ||
| 653 | |a Verb phrase | ||
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |a www.oapen.org |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30840/1/641736.pdf |7 0 |z Get Fullteks |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |a www.oapen.org |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27778 |7 0 |z DOAB: description of the publication |