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Marquesan : a grammar of space /
Marquesan, an endangered Polynesian language, is remarkable because its speakers use a spatial orientation system based on local landmarks in the environment to describe spatial relations even in micro-level space. This volume is an in-depth empirical analysis of the verbal forms and means of spatia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
169. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Marquesan, an endangered Polynesian language, is remarkable because its speakers use a spatial orientation system based on local landmarks in the environment to describe spatial relations even in micro-level space. This volume is an in-depth empirical analysis of the verbal forms and means of spatial reference and the conception of space in this language. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 682 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 652-671) and index. |
| ISBN: | 3110197758 9783110197754 1282194119 9781282194113 9786612194115 6612194111 |