A Grammar Of Toqabaqita
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A Grammar of Toqabaqita
Author: Frantisek Lichtenberk
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date: 2008-11-03
Toqabaqita is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 13,000 people on the island of Malaita in the south-eastern Solomon Islands. This two-volume grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language, based on the author's field work. The grammar deals with the phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse patterns of the language, as well as with its contact with Solomon Islands Pijin. It will be of special interest to typologists and to specialists in Austronesian linguistics.
The Art of Grammar
Author: Aleksandr Aĭkhenvalʹd
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2015
This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars offer a basis for understanding linguistic diversity and can provide a unique perspective into the structure and social and cognitive underpinnings of different languages. Alexandra Aikhenvald describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data for use in this type of grammar, and discusses the typological parameters that can be used to explore relationships with other languages. She considers how a grammar can made to reflect and bring to life the society of its speakers through background explanation and the judicious choice of examples, as well as by showing how its language, history, and culture are intertwined. She ends with a full glossary of terms and guidance for those wanting to explore a particular linguistic phenomenon or language family. The Art of Grammar is the ideal resource for students and teachers of linguistics, language studies, and inductively-oriented linguistic, cultural, and social anthropology.
A Dictionary of Toqabaqita (Solomon Islands)
Author: Frantisek Lichtenberk
language: en
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Release Date: 2008
"Toqabaqita is an Austronesian, more specifically an Oceanic, language spoken on the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands. This is the first published dictionary of the language, based on the author's work on the language for over two decades, starting in 1981. The volume contains a Toqabaqita-English dictionary (nearly 7,000 entries) and an English-Toqabaqita finderlist."--Provided by publisher."Toqabaqita is an Austronesian, more specifically an Oceanic, language spoken on the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands. This is the first published dictionary of the language, based on the author's work on the language for over two decades, starting in 1981. The volume contains a Toqabaqita-English dictionary (nearly 7,000 entries) and an English-Toqabaqita finderlist."--Provided by publisher.