Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian

by Sandra Chung

Book Overview

Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian. In its treatment of the history of case marking in Polynesian, it attempts to specify...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292768540
• ISBN13: 9780292768543
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"