Captain Cook's South Sea Island Vocabularies
Author: Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 312
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Author: Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 312
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert J. Schütz
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2020-05-31
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0824869834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook’s naturalist and philologist William Anderson, ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia (the inspiration for the Hawaiian Mission), the American lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players. The account begins in prehistory, placing the probable origins of the ancestor of Polynesian languages in mainland Asia. An evolving family tree reflects the linguistic changes that took place as these people moved east. The current versions are examined from a Hawaiian-centered point of view, comparing the sound system of the language with those of its major relatives in the Polynesian triangle. More recent historical topics begin with the first written samples of a Polynesian language in 1616, which led to the birth of the idea of a widespread language family. The next topic is how the Hawaiian alphabet was developed. The first efforts suffered from having too many letters, a problem that was solved in 1826 through brilliant reasoning by its framers and their Hawaiian consultants. The opposite problem was that the alphabet didn’t have enough letters: analysts either couldn’t hear or misinterpreted the glottal stop and long vowels. The end product of the development of the alphabet—literacy—is more complicated than some statistics would have us believe. As for its success or failure, both points of view, from contemporary observers, are presented. Still, it cannot be denied that literacy had a tremendous and lasting effect on Hawaiian culture. The last part of the book concentrates on the most-used Hawaiian reference works—dictionaries. It describes current projects that combine print and manuscript collections on a searchable website. These projects can include the growing body of material that is being made available through recent and ongoing research. As for the future, a proposed monolingual dictionary would allow users to avoid an English bridge to understanding, and move directly to a definition that includes Hawaiian cultural features and a Hawaiian worldview.
Author: Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006-07-31
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0824861256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of PortVila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world’s smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software (Audiamus) developed in the course of the research. An included DVD provides a dictionary and finderlist, a set of interlinearized example texts and elicited sentences, and playable media versions of most example sentences and of the example texts.
Author: John Robson
Publisher: Chatham Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ultimate reference work on Britain's greatest navigator and explorer. The book aims to provide answers on all aspects of the life and voyages of Captain James Cook, and the people, places, events and ships associated with the great explorer.
Author: James Cook
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 644
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Straits Branch
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 914
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