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This is a true classic: a Māori to English dictionary by the great A.W. Reed with two fine illustrations per page by Roger Hart. First published in 1965, the book used macronised vowels years before these became standard. This facsimile edition updates the text to give a more contemporary context to the headwords, meanings and derivations, but the retro feel remains.

Learn Tagalog with new picture dictionary series from a trusted publisher of foreign language study guides. With colorful, eye-catching illustrations to stimulate imagination and curiosity, My First Tagalog Dictionary is specially designed for children ages 5 to 12. It contains more than 1,000 everyday words--each illustrated and translated.ated.

Kopar is a very moribund, close to extinct, language spoken in three villages at the mouth of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. This is the only description of the language available. It also discusses areas where rapid language shift is affecting the structure of Kopar. Although the period of fieldwork was necessarily short, this book provides as comprehensive a description as possible of the grammatical structure of this complex and fascinating language. It is quite thorough and detailed and goes well beyond what is normally considered a sketch grammar. It covers all the phenomena essential to description and comparison and gives clear, typologically sound definitions and explanations. The grammar is written with the research interests of language typologists and comparative grammarians foremost in mind. Typologically, Kopar can be described as a split ergative, polysynthetic language. The language lacks nominal case marking so ergativity or lack thereof is signaled by verbal agreement affixes. Tenses and moods which describe as yet unrealized events, like future and imperative, pattern accusatively for agreement affixes, while those express realized events, like past and present, pattern ergatively. In addition, the ergative case schema is overlaid by a direct-inverse inflectional schema determined by a person hierarchy, a feature Kopar shares with other languages in its Lower Sepik family. As a polysynthetic language, incorporation of sentential elements like temporals, locationals, adverbials and verbals is extensive, though noun incorporation is not. Sadly, this work is all the documentation we will likely ever have of Kopar, a language of potentially very high theoretical interest, given its rare typological profile. It will certainly be of interest to language typologists and comparative grammarians, and anyone who wants to explore the range of language variation

Anybody with the chance of teaching English to Indonesian speakers should have experienced difficulties when it comes to non-verbal predicates and the placement of be. This volume looks at this matter from a grammar competition perspective.An experiment conducted in Bandar Lampung with Indonesian learners of English identified specific error patterns. These patterns result from grammar competition between the L1 Indonesian and the L2 English. This work mainly deals with the influence of adverbs such as still or already, and the category of the non-verbal predicate (adjectival, nominal, preposition phrase).Although the main focus of this work is in the field of language acquisition, this volume also provides a detailed contrast between English and Indonesian non-verbal predicates and the contrast of the English copula be and the Indonesian copulas ada and adalah. The lingusitic description is done in a generative DM-based approach. Thus, this volume does not only provide new insights in the field language acquisiton, but also in the generative description of Indonesian in general and non-verbal predicates in particular.

More so than most other Polynesian languages, the Samoan language is highly stratified. This edition provides the core knowledge necessary to understand the high level of interplay in Samoan oratory between language and history. 268 pp.

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 1.7, Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: This country paper will give you an overview of the Republic of Fiji and its economy. Due to the fact that it is commonly known as Fiji, I will use this name in my paper.Chapter two gives you an overview over the country which means some basic facts about Fiji and social issues. In the next chapter I wrote about the economic policy which means the fiscal policy as well as the monetary policy. In chapter four the macroeconomic situation is described: How did the GDP, the inflation rate and the unemployment rate develop? Chapter five describes the main economic sectors of Fiji: how much they contribute to the GDP and how much employment they offer. The international economic relations are described in chapter six: What kind of commodities does the country export and import? And who are the main trading partners? The major problems Fiji has to face and the impact of the cyclone Winston are explained in chapter seven.

More than just a list of Hawaiian words to be memorized; it is an engaging entry into Hawaiian via the medium of narrative. It introduces readers to nearly 150 well-known vocabulary words and, in addition, offers an interesting perspective on personal encounters with people throughout the island chain. Using a "narrative domains" approach, this volume strives to help readers internalize Hawaiian and provide them whit a beginner's vocabulary that will aid them in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding various parts of the language. -- publisher

Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered language with only one speaker remaining in 2012 and no child learners. The materials on which this grammatical description is based were collected by the authors over a 20 year period from the last first-language speakers of the language, most of whom have since passed away. Bilinarra is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup of Pama-Nyungan which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa family, which also includes Warlpiri. It is non-configurational, with nominals commonly omitted, arguments cross-referenced by pronominal clitics and word order grammatically free and largely determined by information structure. In this grammatical description much attention is paid to its morphosyntax, including case morphology, the pronominal clitic system and complex predicates. A particular strength of the volume is the provision of sound files for example sentences, allowing the reader access to the language itself.

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