22.2581, Books: Lang Documentation/Typology/General Ling: N=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E6ss=2C_?=Hovdhaugen

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Subject: 22.2581, Books: Lang Documentation/Typology/General Ling: Næss, Hovdhaugen

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Date: 20-Jun-2011
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako: Næss, Hovdhaugen

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:51:47
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako: Næss, Hovdhaugen

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Title: A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 52  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110238266-1 

Author: Åshild Næss
Author: Even Hovdhaugen

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110238273 Pages: 519 Price: Europe EURO 139.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110238266 Pages: 519 Price: Europe EURO 139.95

Abstract:

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.

Historically, speakers of Vaeakau-Taumako were shipbuilders and navigators 
who made trade voyages throughout the area, bringing them into constant 
contact with speakers of the Reefs-Santa Cruz, Utupua and Vanikoro 
languages. The latter languages are only distantly related to Vaeakau-
Taumako, making up an only recently identified first-order subgroup of 
Oceanic. Polynesian speakers first arrived in the area some 700-1000 years 
ago from the core Polynesian areas to the east. While today most intra-group 
communication takes place in Solomon Islands Pijin, traditionally the 
situation was one of extensive multilingualism, and this has left profound 
traces in the grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako, which shows a number of 
structural properties not known from other Polynesian languages.
A Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako is the most comprehensive grammar of 
any Polynesian Outlier to date, and the first full-length grammar of any 
language of Temotu Province. Based on extensive fieldwork, it is structured 
as a reference grammar dealing with all aspects of language structure, from 
phonology to discourse organization, and including a selection of glossed 
texts. It will be of interest to typologists, Oceanic linguists, and researchers 
interested in language contact. 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Grammars
                     Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Ayiwo (nfl)
                     Vaeakau-Taumako (piv)
                     Santa Cruz (stc)
                     Amba (utp)
                     Vano (vnk)

Written In: English  (eng)

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