Maori: A Linguistic Introduction (Linguistic Introductions)

✍ Scribed by Ray Harlow

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Linguistic Introductions
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mäori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, is an endangered, minority language, with an important role in the Mäori community's culture and identity. This comprehensive overview looks at all aspects of the Mäori language: its history, its dialects, its sounds and grammar, and the efforts being made by its speakers to ensure its survival. A succinct survey of a language with a wealth of interesting features, it will interest anyone wishing to study the structure of a minority language, as well as those interested in endangered languages and their preservation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 10
Maps......Page 11
Tables......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Notes......Page 19
Literature on Maori......Page 21
Literature in Maori......Page 22
Notes......Page 25
The Austronesian family and subgroups......Page 26
Sound changes......Page 31
Metatheses......Page 36
Consonant deletion......Page 37
Recent phonological and phonetic change......Page 38
Grammatical developments......Page 39
Maori and PPN ergativity/accusativity......Page 40
Grammatical innovations in Maori......Page 45
The Maori vocabulary......Page 48
Notes......Page 53
3 Regional variation in Maori......Page 57
Phonological differences......Page 60
Grammatical variation......Page 64
Lexical variation......Page 65
The implication of regional variation in Maori......Page 68
South Island Maori......Page 71
Moriori......Page 73
Notes......Page 75
Phoneme inventory......Page 78
Vowel length......Page 82
Distribution of phonemes......Page 84
Phonotactics......Page 85
Syllables and moræ......Page 87
The phonetics of Maori......Page 91
Consonants......Page 92
Vowels......Page 93
Stress......Page 97
The Maori writing system......Page 101
The development of written Maori......Page 104
Notes......Page 108
Parts of speech......Page 112
Particles vs bases......Page 115
Verbs......Page 120
Nouns......Page 126
Pronouns......Page 127
Word shape......Page 129
Number......Page 130
Passive......Page 131
Nominalisation......Page 137
Prefixes......Page 139
Reduplication......Page 143
Compounds......Page 145
Notes......Page 147
The phrase......Page 151
Tense/aspect markers......Page 153
Determiners......Page 156
Possessive determiners......Page 158
Prepositions......Page 161
Postposed particles......Page 163
The nucleus......Page 164
Sentence structure......Page 166
Predicates......Page 167
Existential sentences......Page 169
Subjects......Page 170
Other sentence constituents......Page 171
Coordination......Page 175
Negation......Page 176
Possession......Page 179
Predicative possessives......Page 180
Transforms of basic sentences......Page 186
Passive......Page 187
Focus and topic constructions......Page 189
Adverbial clauses......Page 195
Complement clauses......Page 197
Relativisation......Page 198
Maori relativisation and the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy......Page 202
Notes......Page 203
Demography......Page 208
Reversing language shift......Page 212
Maori as an official language......Page 213
Maori in education......Page 215
Maori as a subject of tuition......Page 216
Maori as language of tuition......Page 218
Maori in the media......Page 221
Attitudes......Page 222
Language planning......Page 224
Status planning......Page 226
Corpus planning......Page 227
Vocabulary expansion......Page 228
Language materials......Page 232
Language death?......Page 233
Notes......Page 235
References......Page 240
Index......Page 255

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Полинезийские языки;Маори;