Subgrouping Of The Rapanui Language Of Easter Island In Polynesian And Its Implications For East Polynesian Prehistory
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Subgrouping Of The Rapanui Langugage Of Easter Island In Polynesian And Its Implications For East Polynesian Prehistory
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Author : Roger Curtis Green
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Subgrouping Of The Rapanui Langugage Of Easter Island In Polynesian And Its Implications For East Polynesian Prehistory written by Roger Curtis Green and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
Subgrouping Of The Rapanui Language Of Easter Island In Polynesian And Its Implications For East Polynesian Prehistory
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Author : Roger Curtis Green
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Subgrouping Of The Rapanui Language Of Easter Island In Polynesian And Its Implications For East Polynesian Prehistory written by Roger Curtis Green and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Easter Island categories.
The Language Of Easter Island
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Author : Robert Langdon
language : en
Publisher: Nicholson
Release Date : 1983
The Language Of Easter Island written by Robert Langdon and has been published by Nicholson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Hawaiki Ancestral Polynesia
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Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-03-15
Hawaiki Ancestral Polynesia written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-15 with History categories.
The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. They illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland - Hawaiki - some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green's book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of long-term history.
A Grammar Of Rapa Nui
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Author : Paulus Kieviet
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
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A Grammar Of Rapa Nui written by Paulus Kieviet and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.
The Prehistoric Exploration And Colonisation Of The Pacific
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Author : Geoffrey Irwin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992
The Prehistoric Exploration And Colonisation Of The Pacific written by Geoffrey Irwin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of navigation, Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly downwind in search of the unknown, Pacific Islanders expanded settlement by the cautious strategy of exploring upwind, so as to ease their safe return. The author has tested this hypothesis against the chronological data from archaeological investigation, with a computer simulation of demographic and exploration patterns and by sailing throughout the region himself.
Archaeology And Language Iv
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Author : Roger Blench
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Archaeology And Language Iv written by Roger Blench and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.
Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.
Comparative Austronesian Dictionary
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Author : Darrell T. Tryon
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Comparative Austronesian Dictionary written by Darrell T. Tryon and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Easter Island S Silent Sentinels
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Author : Kenneth Treister
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2013
Easter Island S Silent Sentinels written by Kenneth Treister and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.
"This richly illustrated book of the history, culture, and art of Easter Island is the first to examine in detail the island's vernacular architecture, often overshadowed by its giant stone statues"--Provided by publisher.
The Evolution Of Cultural Diversity
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Author : Ruth Mace
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-09-16
The Evolution Of Cultural Diversity written by Ruth Mace and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-16 with Social Science categories.
Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of languages existed in the past but became extinct. Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to explain this rich cultural variation. There are a number of theoretical reasons to believe that cultural diversification might be tree-like, that is phylogenetic: material and non-material culture is clearly inherited by descendants, there is descent with modification, and languages appear to be hierarchically related. There are also a number of theoretical reasons to believe that cultural evolution is not tree-like: cultural inheritance is not Mendelian and can indeed be vertical, horizontal or oblique, evidence of borrowing abounds, cultures are not necessarily biological populations and can be transient and complex. Here, for the first time, this title tackles these questions of cultural evolution empirically and quantitatively, using a range of case studies from Africa, the Pacific, Europe, Asia and America. A range of powerful theoretical tools developed in evolutionary biology is used to test detailed hypotheses about historical patterns and adaptive functions in cultural evolution. Evidence is amassed from archaeological, linguist and cultural datasets, from both recent and historical or pre-historical time periods. A unifying theme is that the phylogenetic approach is a useful and powerful framework, both for describing the evolutionary history of these traits, and also for testing adaptive hypotheses about their evolution and co-evolution. Contributors include archaeologists, anthropologists, evolutionary biologists and linguists, and this book will be of great interest to all those involved in these areas.