Marquesan: A Grammar of Space By Gabriele H. Cablitz
2006 | 682 Pages | ISBN: 3110189496 | PDF | 4 MB
2006 | 682 Pages | ISBN: 3110189496 | PDF | 4 MB
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.