Marquesan : a grammar of space / by Gabriele H. Cablitz.

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 spatia...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Cablitz, Gabriele H., 1966-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Series:	Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 169.
Subjects:	Marquesan language > Grammar. Space and time in language. Marquesan language > Locative constructions. Marquesan language > Grammar Space and time in language