Maori

Informationen zum Autor Winifred Bauer Klappentext This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Today, the language is under threat and it seems likely that the Maori of the future will differ quite considerably from the Maori of the past.Winifred Bauer offers a wide-ranging and detailed description of the structure of the language, covering syntax, morphology and phonology. Based upon narrative texts and data elicited from older native-speaking consultants and illustrated with a wealth of examples the book will be of interest to both linguistic theoreticians and descriptive linguists, including language typologists. Zusammenfassung This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori. Today the language is under threat and it seems likely that the Maori of the future will differ quite considerably from the Maori of the past. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Syntax; 2: Morphology; 3: Phonology; 4: Ideophones and Interjections; 5: Lexicon

Product details

• Authors: Winifred Bauer, BAUER WINIFRED, Te Kareongawai Evans, William Parker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.1993
• EAN: 9780415022545
• ISBN: 978-0-415-02254-5
• No. of pages: 638
• Series: Critics of the Twentieth Centu; Descriptive Grammars; Critics of the Twentieth Centu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Maorisch