Maori (Hardcover)

This book provides a comprehensive linguistic 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. With few inflections Maori is readily approached by linguists. It has an elaborate system for the expression of possession, and while superficially an accusative language, it shows various traces of ergativity. The area of transitivity in particular provides a number of interesting theoretical problems and constructions unusual outside the Polynesian family. Winifred Bauer offers a wide-ranging and detailed description of the structure of the language, covering syntax, morphology and phonology. It is based on written narrative texts and data elicited from older native-speaking consultants, and also includes many comments on current changes in usage. This descriptive grammar, which is illustrated with a number of examples, should be of interest to both linguistic theoreticians and descriptive linguists, including language typologists.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Descriptive Grammars
Release date:	April 1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Winifred Bauer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	638
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-02254-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-02254-1
Barcode:	9780415022545

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