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Gagana Samoa: A Samoan Language Coursebook
  

Gagana Samoa: A Samoan Language Coursebook (Trade Paperback/Paperback, Revised edition)

By Hunkin, Galumalemana Afeleti L.

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Designed for both classroom and personal use, this is a modern Samoan language resource. It features an emphasis on patterns of speech and communication through practice and examples; 10 practical dialogues covering everyday social situations; and, an introduction to the wider cu ...

ISBN 9780824831318
Published 1 April 2009 by University of Hawai'i Press
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Talanoa Model Conversations For Learning Samoan
  

Talanoa Model Conversations For Learning Samoan (Paperback)

By Tavita, S.

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Talanoa is the latest addition to the Evaleon Books catalogue of bilingual resources for NZ Primary Schools. Written by educators Saili and Levi Tavita, this book provides 122 model conversations to assist young learners with their conversational Samoan

ISBN 9780473127190
Published 12 June 2009
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Everyday Samoan : A Samoan Grammar Elucidated By the Use of Numerous Examples from Ordinary Conversations in the Samoan Language
   

Everyday Samoan : A Samoan Grammar Elucidated By the Use of Numerous Examples from Ordinary Conversations in the Samoan Language (Paperback, 2nd reprint of 1949 ed)

By Downs, Ea

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A Samoan grammar, "elucidated by the use of numerous examples from ordinary conversation in the Samoan language."Facsimile reprint of 1949 2nd edition

ISBN 9780909053147
Published 13 March 1998
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Pacific Languages: An Introduction
   

Pacific Languages: An Introduction (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Lynch, John

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An introduction to the grammatical features of Oceanid, Papuan and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. The text gives a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics for those without a formal linguistic background.

ISBN 9780824818982
Published 31 December 1998 by University of Hawai'i Press
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Austronesian Historical Linguistics And Culture History: A Festschrift For Robert Blust
  

Austronesian Historical Linguistics And Culture History: A Festschrift For Robert Blust (Hardback)

By Alexander Adelaar and Andrew Pawley, editors

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This book brings together new work on Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history to honour Robert Blust. The memoirs in Part 1 reflect on Blust's groundbreaking contributions to these fields over the last 40 years. The remaining 26 chapters contain contributions by l ...

ISBN 9780858836013
Published 23 July 2009 by Pacific Linguistics
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Oral Traditions of Anuta: A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands

Oral Traditions of Anuta: A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands (Hardback)

By Feinberg, Richard

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Feinberg compiles historical narratives from the island of Anuta, an isolated and largely traditional community in the eastern Solomon Islands. He includes both the original texts and the translations, and his annotations provide essential ethnographic and historical context that ...

ISBN 9780195106831
Published 1 January 1998 by Oxford University Press
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Series Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
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The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (Paperback)

By Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

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This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. The book is based entirely on the author' ...

ISBN 9780199588237
Published 17 June 2010 by Oxford University Press
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From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village

From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Duranti, Alessandro

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This monograph explores the way that traditional oratory in a Samoan village has been shaped by the needs of the political process. The author explains how grammar has been used to distribute praise and blame, in a way that also defines the standing of individuals in the communit ...

ISBN 9780520083851
Published 22 August 1994 by Inbooks
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Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate (Hardback)

By Keesing, Roger M.

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Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons lan ...

ISBN 9780804714501
Published 30 June 1988 by Inbooks
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The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic. Volume 3: the Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society
 

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic. Volume 3: the Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society (Paperback)

By Ross, Malcolm

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This is the third in a series of six volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which pres ...

ISBN 9780858835894
Published 1 December 2008 by Pacific Linguistics
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