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<html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="microsoft dhtml editing control"> <title></title> </head> <body> <P>This volume investigates the linguistic and semantic encodings and conceptions of space in the East-Polynesian language Marquesan by focusing on the great variety of language- and culture-specific ways of referring to space, thus documenting an essential part of human behaviour and everyday communication in a South Pacific island population. On the basis of a large corpus of both natural and elicited spoken language data the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of all relevant lexical and grammatical units and constructions used for spatial reference are analysed in detail. </P> <P>Remarkable for this language is the fact that a particular kind of spatial orientation system based on local landmarks of the environment - a so-called 'absolute system' - is used for spatial description even on a micro-level or so-called 'table-top' space. <EM>Marquesan -A Grammar of Space </EM>is the first comprehensive description and in-depth study of spatial language to be found in an Austronesian language. Apart from examining the complex sociolinguistic situation, the degree of lang

Author

Cablitz, Gabriele H.

Publisher

Mouton de Gruyter

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612194115