A Grammar of Vaeakau-TaumakoWalter de Gruyter, 30. juuni 2011 - 538 pages 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. |
Contents
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Word classes | 51 |
Reduplication | 85 |
Deictics | 97 |
Nominal morphology | 145 |
Noun phrase structure | 158 |
Verbal morphology | 196 |
Tense aspect and mood | 291 |
Simple clauses | 310 |
Complex clauses | 335 |
Serial verbs and related constructions | 372 |
Negation and questions | 385 |
Coordination and conjunctions | 410 |
Discourse organization | 432 |
Texts | 461 |
Verb phrase structure | 228 |
Prepositions | 251 |
Modifiers | 268 |
List of grammatical morphemes | 500 |