Topics in Polynesian language
and culture history
OUT OF PRINT
Marck, Jeff
PL 504
The present volume first
re-examines Polynesian language subgrouping from the pint
of view of shared sporadic sound change. The main conclusion
of those chapters is to support Bill Wilson's idea that East
Polynesian languages might be most closely related to the
languages of Tuvalu northwest of Samoa, along with the 'Ellicean'
Outlieres. Later chapters cover cosmogony and kin terms for
the various Polynesian subgroups, traditional interests of
culture historians that were not much investiated prior to
the work of this thesis. The volume ends with a discussion
of how language and ethicity transformed over time in early
Western Polynesia, both becoming more focused on particular
island groups at about the time population pressures were
first being felt in the larger island groups (Samoa and Tonga).
2000
ISBN 0 85883 468 5
281 + xxi pp.
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